A good national leader would inspire fear in his enemies abroad, not on his constituents.
Right now the nation is on the defensive, from the unpredictable offenses of a seemingly arbitrary and capricious leader. We are looking at national policy like air traffic controllers mesmerized by the haphazard trajectory of an unidentified aircraft, and who dare not imagine that monkeys have taken over the cockpit. They can’t talk to the pilot, they can only wonder about what’s on his mind, not prepared to consider the possibility that there isn’t anything on his mind, just having all the possible fun, as any self-respecting monkey should.
In America, we don’t really know what tyranny feels like, but we are getting a taste of it, and thanks God we don’t like it. All these trillions flying out of the window is a heck of a tuition to pay for our basic education on the perils of excessive power, but the cost of ignorance could be even higher.
