It was obvious back in 2017, but somehow the media, social media, and most people "convinced" themselves that this time was different. It's like Gell-Mann Amnesia, when he's being a bumbling idiot people remember that he's incompetent and surrounded by incompetence. When he says "I'm coming for the thing you care about" suddenly the Etch-A-Sketch shakes and people think he's playing 5D chess.
Just to play devil’s advocate because why the heck not lol, isn’t the theory here that people are tired of waiting for all the analysis of every chesterton’s fence and we should just act?
I don’t understand your argument, isn’t the whole point of electing an outsider like Musk or Trump that they won’t ask why the fence is there, they’ll just remove it?
First, nobody elected Musk. Second, many of the voters which selected Trump this cycle did so out of frustration with their current situation, primarily the cost of living. Those people didn't want chaos or disregard for the rule of law, they wanted more affordable groceries, rent, and increased wages. They were either uninformed or deliberately misinformed, and we all now have to suffer for their choices. They were imaging that things would go back to how they were during Trump's first term (ignoring the mishandling of the pandemic entirely), not understanding that there is no going back. You can't just reverse prices without causing a deflationary spiral, you don't even want to stop the desired level of inflation (2-3%), because doing so will also damage the economy. You want wages to increase faster to inflation, and over time it will even out. The government could pass regulations which eliminated illegal coordination and price fixing in the rental market, but you can bet every Trump Coin you have that this administration won't do that. They could also pass legislation to incentivize corporations from gobbling up houses all over the country, but again, this administration won't help with that either.
These voters, plain and simple, ignorantly voted against their best interests, and we may never recover from that mistake.
No, we still want the laws to be followed, not blatantly broken and ignored. I don't want millions of people to suffer because these fools have no clue how to run a government, which is very different from a company. Beyond their incompetence, they are raiding the government for their own benefit. It's the doing of Heritage Foundation, trying to replicate what Orban has done in and to Hungary. The oligarchs want things to operate like Russia, they don't care about us. Enough of culture wars, we need class warfare
