There are SOOOOOO many reasons to hate Donald Trump, I'm not sure I landed on this one, but it really bugs me. Trump is an idiot, which is not a reason to hate him. He's an idiot who thinks he's a genius, which is also not a reason to hate him, but makes him especially annoying.
In Jon Chait's latest anti-anti-anti-Trumper screed, he takes to task a writer at the WSJ who makes a nonsensical claim that Trump and Biden are effectively the same on Ukraine. It's an obviously bullshit argument. However, when Chait quotes Trump, it brings to mind one of his many rhetorical tendencies that I absolutely freaking loath. It's the "It's so easy, I could do it in 24 hours.?"
This is a straight pull from the populist playbook. Ross Perot was another practitioner. The idea that complicated problems have simple solutions is incredibly corrosive of good government. There might be simple things that could improve a complex situation - say removing the cap on the Social Security tax - without completely solving them.
There is no simple solution to Ukraine beyond one side emerging victorious. There is no simple solution to Gaza either. "Permanent ceasefire now" is just stupid. A permanent ceasefire is called "peace" and again both sides need to agree to it.
Trump's "I could solve Gaza in 24 hours" schtick just fucking infuriates me, perhaps precisely because it feeds into the Dunning-Kruger effect that so many of his cultists have.
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