I have been thinking about this since yesterday. The concept is that the Trump administration is inept and the foundation of the country and economy is so strong, and even though everything that is happening seems real bad, in reality all of it is a nothingburger. This is similar to something I have been saying, which is that Trump and Co. are a cartoon version of a fascist takeover. I've been amazed that the powers that be, with real big shit to lose and their hands on the levers of power haven't done anything while Trump appears to do a bunch of shit to harm the country. Maybe they know that it's all just performative bullshit; theater without real world consequences for the vast, vast majority of people, including those who might be in a position to do something about it. Or maybe those people don't really exist. Given the way it appears, I would expect to look out my office window and see fires everywhere, armed conflict in the streets, looting, infrastructure failing, the stock market tanking, inflation rising exponentially - but none of that has happened, yet. I honestly don't know. I know my own experience, which is that hardly anything has changed for me. Groceries and other goods are a bit more expensive, but that's about it. I know there are people out there who have directly felt the effects - undocumented immigrants, government employees who lost their jobs, people overseas who don't have U.S. foreign aid, as just a few examples. It's just surprisingly hard to tell how bad all of this is, really.