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I posted this quick analysis of Trump on the 26 March 2017, which is about 2 months after Trump came to power…. It seems pretty accurate for the rest of his reign, although I did not anticipate how much lying and positive thinking would dominate his mode of operations.

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What we have learnt about Republican politics in the last couple of weeks….

1) It appears Trump cannot do deals even with his own people. He makes threats and then withdraws when they don’t agree.

2) The Republicans can criticise something [policies and legislation] for years, but have no idea what to do, when it becomes time to do something.

3) Trump, and his party have no ideas and no plans, just vague directions and value judgements. [I did not guess how harsh, those value judgements would come be, and how they would seem to consign non-agreeing people to the pit].

4) Their directions can be summarised as: always subsidise the rich, always step on the poor. Pollution is good.

5) If anything goes wrong, Republicans will blame the Democrats [mainly Hillary Clinton and Obama], because the failure can’t have anything to do with them. [They are still fighting Clinton].

6) They will probably try and sabotage Affordable Health Care, or any other protective legislation, simply to get revenge and give corporations liberty. [This fight seems to now include being against the right to vote]

7) Trump follows his ‘instinct’ or intuition, and he is always right – even when he isn’t.

8) He does not need any empirical checks or testing. He just ‘knows’, and thinks everyone will come to agree with him eventually.

9) Consequently he hates science.

10) Hypothesis: It would seem there is no dealing with, or reasoning with such people. They can go anywhere their drives, intuition, complexes, or possession, take them – and they will take others with them.

11) There is the possibility that most of them would rather destroy the world than confront their fallibility. [This seems even more true nowadays]

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