Is Trump Failing as President? (user search)

Incompetent as a politician, and ineffective as a moral leader. A reasonably good President like Reagan or Obama can nudge the political climate some contrary to the desires and instincts of others. Trump is getting people who opposed his ideology to hate it more and causing people willing at first to give him a chance to get impatient with him.

As a businessman he has had his core source of wealth in the easy money of leasing prime real estate to high-income tenants while getting others to take the big risks for his highly-leveraged efforts for his gain and glory. He's just lucky that his efforts did not end up with an Enron-style implosion. This is a President willing to take great risks for his own glory and inflict the risks of catastrophic ruin in the event of failure upon everyone else.

He is horrible, and so far he has gotten away with what he has done because he is President of the United States of America. But that might not be enough to prevent the worst calamity in American history since the Civil War. One thing is certain: he is not Abraham Lincoln, who inherited a political reality that was going very bad for a very long time and was festering badly with the politicians of the time making things worse.

George W. Bush might be somewhat comparable to Taylor, Pierce, and Fillmore and Clinton perhaps to Polk, George H W Bush to Van Buren, and Reagan to Jackson. But Obama is not Buchanan. Trump is as far from Lincoln as he could be.

We could need a Lincoln... or for a foreign example, Adenauer... to get our way out of the Trump disaster.

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