Don Quixote in the White House, come January, 2017

Yes, and he's back chasing Wind Mills, once again!

The point is Trump's vision of the US hasn't improved upon Reagan's conceived in a time when things were vastly different--simpler.

The world is confronting a major problem with pollution and increment in climate temperature, resulting in serious flooding and catastrophic weather abnormality.  But Trump, wearing Don Quixote's glasses, is hell-bent to send the world into a tail-spin.  He can see no further than ISIS troops on scattered battlefields.

He's going to make West Virginia and Pennsylvania a veritable smoke-stack of pollutants.  Look at China, those of you who can see that far.  They're running to new forms of energy, non-coal, as fast as they can.

I think Trump's finding it difficult to find good talent for governmental positions.  Else, he would be settling for Sessions (whose father I knew indirectly) and Bannon, whose a crazy outsider of federal government circles. Certainly, I've heard "Laura" explain her reticence to take a government position with the administration.  Nobody wants to work for a bully, if he can make a wiser choice.

But Trump sincerely believes that the country is in need of just such a bully as he. 

He dreams that the stock market hasn't spurred the economy enough.  He's aiming at 4% plus GDP. I think that's called heating the economy to the point of another bubble bursting.  I would perhaps go along with some spurring of the economy had Trump distinguished those who will make another killing in the stock market who are already benefitting from a strong economy and those start-up companies in need of some help.  But no, everybody is to gain from tax reductions he proposes, with those wealthy benefitting the most.  Even now the bankers are pouring money back into the country in preparation for a windfall they don't need.  But Trump knows his own; and he's going to help his own whether or not they need it.

The average man believes in Trump because he says he is for the common man and is working on his behalf.  Well, perhaps Trump will be able to withstand the criticism that he's adding a windfall to his own coffers qua presidency.  He certainly will be out to convince the common man that the wind mills he's pursuing actually exist.  For, every fool he convinces means a significant addition to Trump's own wealth and political power.