The Millennial View: A role fit for Trump — king

For too long we’ve let our country’s craving for colorful political personages interfere with the more boring, practical business of governing.

Every election, Americans gravitate toward presidential candidates whom they can “have a beer with,” even though core presidential duties rarely involve pub crawls.

In this election more than ever, we seem to want a charming national cheerleader, someone who offers catchy slogans and makes big, seductive, impractical promises that bear little relationship to reality, or even basic arithmetic.

Qualities such as the ability to differentiate between Hamas and Hezbollah, or understand trade relations, or express a coherent position on divisive social issues.



[...] let’s face it, the office that Trump has been running for looks less like president and more like king.

Not because he promises outcomes that assume zero constitutional checks on his power (though he often does), but because he appears not to have much genuine interest in making presidential policy decisions in the first place.

Ditto with his health care plan, and his views on high-skilled immigration, and his jumble of foreign policy principles.

[...] he’s already quite adept at using public subsidies and government fiats to amass a large and growing land empire.

Despite his obvious disinterest in the responsibilities of governing, Trump is undeniably a talented, charismatic political personality.

A potentially ignoble noble, Trump has a habit of smearing entire cultures and countries, alienating our allies and empowering our enemies.