Many bright, well-meaning people are trying to figure out Donald Trump’s plan.
They’re debating the efficacy of tariffs and deportations and saber-rattling and giant cuts to funding and agencies, such as the National Weather Service. They’re wondering if the tariff statements were just an elaborate stock-market scheme.
They’re looking into Trump’s philosophy and method and the logic of it all, as though there’s logic to it all.
Maybe, just maybe, that’s a mistaken approach. Perhaps the reporters and pundits and politicians are all looking for something that’s not there. Perhaps they should judge Trump by what we know – that he sows chaos. Maybe chaos is the plan.
Trump is living on borrowed time and money. Aided and abetted by his cronies on the U.S. Supreme Court, he’s avoiding prosecution for dozens of crimes by holding down the only job that gives him protection, the U.S. presidency.
He owes his job and likely most of his money to Vladimir Putin, Don of the Russian mob. Like every other person in the world, Trump is loyal to the people who pay him.
The Don has demonstrated that he’d like to return Russian to its status as the Soviet Empire controlling half the world, but he’s got one obstacle in his way – the same obstacle that contained the Evil Empire for 50 years – the alliance between Europe and USA.
That’s why Trump wants to trash NATO. There can be no other plausible explanation, despite the histrionics of Tucker Carlson and Trump’s other sycophants on Planet Fox News.
Trump can’t destroy America outright. That wouldn’t fly. So he’s doing the second-best thing for his boss, Vlad. He’s destroying its government, which for better or worse, serves as our nation’s brain.
For Putin and the Russian mob, a lobotomized America is as good as no America. Without order or purpose, the United States is a toothless old fool. So Trump is getting rid of order and replacing it with chaos, which leads to division and self-loathing.
A nation, divided unto itself, cannot stand up to Russia or to anyone else, for that matter. Which is just what Putin wants.
So it’s time for educated people to stop guessing and supposing about Trump and to start judging him instead by his actions and their results: Chaos.
Like any diabolical madman, Trump has his followers. People with an appetite for power, including the entire Republican Party (with a few exceptions), will prostrate themselves before any fool who can dispense it to them.
Some of them even try to cloak Trump in various hifalutin and star-spangled garments, but it’s not working. Trump is not a president, he’s a carnival barker in a red tie.
In the end, those people will be called to account for their loyalty and obedience to a madman whose only plan was chaos.