The basic fact of him remains. He’s an idiot drifting through history, suspended between the updraft of money’s tendency to sustain itself and the downdraft of his fundamental incompetence. Nothing can change this. Nor can the system be somehow rendered stable. Indeed, the presidency inherently marks a terminus for both forces. He has, at last, indisputably become a Great Man of History. Now all that remains is to define that in all its singular bigliness, and all that remains to define it with is his skill at overly predictable pratfalls. There is no way for this to end well for him or
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