mjmartin’s exposition above is very likely reflective of the general Trumpian view of what went wrong and why do we need radical corrective action now – and OldOlds and CoolHandCox point out that from there flows (fed by their limited or twisted sources of information and as wolfpup observes not necessarily sharing a particular consistent directionality) the simplistic answer “tear it all down”. The game IS rigged so why bother playing by the rules, win it and break it and start a new one.
The style and manner aspect of how that is being done is very much a product of Trump and the Right Wing’s complex about not being duly respected and about feeling looked down upon. As excavating_for_a_mind reminds us Trump has always been the butt of the establishment’s lack of awe at him: all his life both the Old Money AND the cultural opinion-makers saw him as a vulgarian. To which his reaction is, you won’t love me? Then fear me.
He and his key followers are obvious believers in the Great Man theory of history and who are all these losers trying to prevent Great Men from doing great things by throwing procedural obstacles in their path. The people voted for this, I’m going to do it.
In another thread, steronz posits what he thinks is Musk’s line of thought (though it may have become addled in the implementation stage, don’t you think?)
And I don’t doubt for one moment that a LOT of the more educated Trump followers have a similar odd version of a technoeconomic rapture that we are being prevented from achieving by institutionalist gradualist lamers who are just too worried about sparing people pain and “playing fair”.