I think you’re referring to the “brat” definition, and I wholeheartedly agree. But I was suggesting exactly this with something else in mind. I was thinking of Trump more as a force of nature that creates opportunities for good things to happen, in spite of himself or his intentions. He is a Melkor, intending to sing discord into creation, but instead inadvertently inspires even greater creation from his adversaries.
Aaaand now I’ve got and image of Melkor wearing tattered leather and forcing a giant safety pin through his cheek.
So you think that trump being trump, is going to make good people rise up to make sure this never happens again? History doesn’t support that. We continue to create megalomaniacs and assholes. Some are smarter than others. On this go round, at least we have a stupid one.
Hunter Thompson had the punk rock candidacy. The fulcrum the OP is based on is just too strained.
donald does represent incoherent, monomaniacal self interest in the form of pathological lying. That’s not punk to me. People having unintended positive effects, which are seperate from their personhood, doesn’t sound indentifiably punk.
The Sex Pistols were a marketing gimmick Malcolm Mclaren used to sell S&M themed fashion. None of them were sober long enough to form a political ethos.