Our Future Will Be Forged In The Suffering Caused By Trump's Savagery
How will we respond?
There is no question that Donald Trump will going to go down as one of the most consequential presidents in American history, but not because he built anything great. He is consequential the way a wrecking ball is consequential to a neighborhood. My grandfather told me, “Any idiot with a hammer can tear down a house, it takes a craftsman to build one.” Trump is our idiot with the hammer, swinging away at the foundations working people rely on.
His childish “MINEroe Doctrine,” where everything is mine, every deal is mine, every win is mine has shredded the basic idea that alliances are about shared interest and mutual trust, not feeding one man’s ego.
When a president treats NATO, trade partners, and long time allies like contestants on one of his reality shows, the damage does not end when the episode is over. Our coworkers in factories, warehouses, ports, and small shops depend on a somewhat stable world to plan a life, pay their mortgages and car loans, and feed and pay for their kids college.
When nobody trusts the United States to keep its word, that stability evaporates. Trump’s chaotic trade wars and tariff games are not “4 D chess.” They are a drunk guy kicking out the supports under the table we all eat from. You can’t rip up supply chains, jerk prices around, and weaponize uncertainty without someone paying the price. It’s not hedge fund managers who pay it. It’s the machinist whose plant closes, the trucker whose runs get cut, the cashier whose hours get slashed when customers stop coming in.
Trump’s antics are not entertainment, they are a pipeline for pain and suffering. While he tweets, shouts, and points fingers, health care gets shakier, wages can’t keep up, workplace protections get gutted, and basic public services are starved. He is proving in real time how much damage one man, backed by the richest people in the country, can do when he convinces working folks to punch down instead of looking up.
But there is another side to this. Destruction has a way of clarifying things. When enough people have had their jobs shipped out, their benefits stripped, their communities hollowed out, and then watched a billionaire president tell them it’s all someone else’s fault, anger starts to focus. When the suffering gets shared widely enough, workers start to realize they have more in common with each other than with any Mar a Lago member.
Trump may be the great destroyer. The real question is what we do with the ruins. If working people use this era to unite across race, region, and party lines, then the next chapter can belong to builders, leaders who respect labor, rebuild public institutions, and put “of the people, by the people, for the people” back into practice. A craftsman can turn broken lumber into a new frame. After Trump, this country is going to need a whole generation of craftsmen.
It will take years to rebuild the damage this one man has done.
His actions of selfishness, ruthlessness, callousness and greed can all be traced to his mental state (antisocial personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, sadism, Machiavellianism, covertousness, etc.).
Never again should this nation allow anyone into the White House without first having a psychological evaluation! Those with no conscience like Trump will do immoral acts.