President Trump's policies were designed to gut environmental protections generally and concentrate wealth for billionaires and other members of the 1/1000th percentile of U.S. income earners. The covid 19 era was an especially great windfall for the wealthiest Americans. With so much broadcast media support for policies that primarily benefit the richest it seems there is little prospect for slowing the inexorable roll toward American aristocracy and plutocratic rule by the most unconscionable class of citizens with no regard for egalitarianism and equal opportunity at all stages of life for actualization of good ideas. Leadership by the dumb seems to be the prevailing trend.
What is dumb leadership? It is unthoughtful, non-philosophically primate inertia to just throughput mass and exchange it for cash without regard to the environmental damage and unsustainable, profligate use of the world's natural resources. It is leadership that is oppressive of poor intellectuals and political parties that do not promote qualified candidates able to understand contemporary ecological economics and plan to move the existing economy seemlessly into a nearly sustainable, recovering state of affairs with the environment no longer suffering mass extinction.
While the Democrat Party simply selects lawyers (who are good enough in courtrooms), Republicans are nearly equally as guilty of picking lawyers or crude business people without any interest in economic ecological change nor apparently capacity for abstract thought.
Without a basic right to work and have opportunity to develop creative products including ideas for all citizens because of traps of poverty and political correctness the nation suffers along under the inertia of the blind pursuit of objects of greed leadership. President Trump is an example of a non-creative billionaire class that have expropriated politics in order to exploit resources. Montana has elected a billionaire Governor as well who tired of two years in the House of Representatives and sought more rewarding opportunity. If millions of Americans are assured a basic income and health care including intellectuals instead of promoting just a few sycophants of Wall Street greater creativity and new leadership might results too. The most rich status quo sort of classes have generally enjoyed repressing bright poor people in order to keep their revenue streams mostly exclusive. The United States should be different than that.