A Novel Makes It Possible

Americans Are About To Discover That Their System Is More Vulnerable Than They Thought. There's A Lot Of Complacency In American Politics, There's A Lot Of Complacency In Advanced Democracies Generally.

I Always Believed As A Speechwriter That If You Could Persuade The President To Commit Himself To Certain Words, He Would Feel Himself Committed To The Ideas That Underlay Those Words. And The Big Shock To Me Has Been That Although The President Said The Words, He Just Did Not Absorb The Ideas. And That Is The Root Of, Maybe, Everything.

Donald Trump, As A Businessman, He's Not Much Of A Builder And He's Not Much Of Dealmaker And He Certainly Isn't Very Good At Making Expenses Line Up With Income. But He Is A Marketing Genius. He Must Have Seen An Empty Market Niche That No One But Him Filled.

Why Be Thrifty When Your Old Age And Health Care Are Provided For, No Matter How Profligate You Act In Your Youth? Why Be Prudent When The State Insures Your Bank Deposits, Replaces Your Flooded-out House, Buys All The Wheat You Can Grow? ... Why Be Diligent When Half Of Your Earnings Are Taken From You And Given To The Idle?

The Great Power The President Has Is That He Is The Most Prominent Person In The Biggest Media Event On The Planet. He Has The Attention Of The Nation And The World. When He Speaks, Everybody Listens.