[quote=bearishgurl]He’s will mobilize the best people in the country to do all the “dirty work” on his agenda and then immediately take to following around seasoned bureaucrats assigned to him as well as heads of Federal agencies to learn the “lay of the land” and will prove to be a “quick study.” This was (inexperienced) Arnold Schwarzenegger’s MO after he was elected Governor of CA and it worked.[/quote]
BG, you’ve made the claim that Trump will hire experts and follow their advice thus we needn’t worry several times, but there are a couple problems with this.
1) Every president hires a crew of experts. There is nothing different about Trump that will cause him to hire “better” experts. You pick Arnold as your example of this working, but I can pick G.W.Bush or Barack Obama as counter examples. (Both hired experts and ended up being fairly ineffective presidents largely due to the experts they surrounded themselves with.)
2) Even experts make serious mistakes. Henry Kissinger was always regarded as one of America’s foremost experts on foreign relations. Yet he’s one of the last people I want my president to rely on for advice. And you do remember Alan Greenspan (The Maestro) don’t you?
3) There is nothing in Trump’s business experience to support the idea that he will hire experts and develop them into a cohesive well functioning team. Quite the contrary. His business (real estate) is largely one with small staffing requirements, mostly of people who follow direction well. As far as I can see, there is no evidence that Trump has real leadership skills. (Unless you consider bullying the same as leadership)
