Trump is still on the same bullshit,
It's not that he was fed wrong info, but that this word, “hopefully,” describes the whole country (policy makers, from all sectors) perfectly now.
A class of midwits who can process only the most obvious, surface-level mechanics of reality.
They grasp the first layer and mistake it for the full picture.
Then they pour all their hope into that thin understanding.
No deeper analysis. No sense of nuance. No ability to adjust when reality refuses to cooperate.
That’s why they ignore obvious feedback, like the fact that there is actually
no one from
"their own side
" filling the streets or mobilizing.
And that, in fact, from "their enemy" side, there
are.
That kind of contradiction just doesn’t fit inside their processing limits.
When reality stops matching the simplified model in their heads, they don’t revise the model.
They just cling harder to hope because at that point,
hope is all they have left with their IQ.
Sometimes, maybe one or two times out of ten, it still works, mostly because of the country’s residual power and global weight, against too badly overmatched opponents, like in the Venezuela case.
But that’s the exception, not the rule.
This is what happens when your internal engine of competence and efficiency has been rotting for years, and you’re just coasting on old momentum.
From the outside, it still looks strong. Under the hood, it’s hollow.
That’s why, when the full American collapse eventually comes, people will say it happened overnight.
In reality, it won’t be sudden at all. It will just mean there were finally enough accumulated mistakes, stacked on top of one
last decisive blunder, to push over a whole structure that had been weakening for decades.