Trump leadership style is the inevitable outcome of centuries of unchallenged white male
dominance.
Everyone my age has come through it. We were taught to obey the patriarch without questions. From priests in our churches, to the father figure in our homes. We were taught to adore our presidents, regardless of how we voted. In the work place and with military service, this lesson was amplified. Insubordination, was a concept to be feared and avoided. Oh man, that's like the concept of blasphemy, or a cardinal sin. You know, I still don't know exactly what blasphemy and cardinal sins are, but it was that door in the basement that you were warned, don't ever open. And if you just listened to The Man and did what you were told, you never had to worry about it.
So, we watched this useless bag of protoplasm that we call a president delegate the difficult job of figuring out the coronavirus response to the governors. Fortunately, I had enough good role models in my life to know that was not a leadership quality. You don't need much work experience to recognize that too many of the MBA generation used delegation when they didn't know what the fuck they were doing. It's such an easy lesson to learn that even years of learned subjugation can't fool you.
In fact, I'll dare say that most of us knew it wasn't a leadership quality, because, at least the white leaders of the past did a better job of trying to act competent in their jobs. They also understood that honesty, integrity, compassion, competence -- these were qualities every leader had to display in order to convince us that there was something special about them that earned them the right to our silence as they lead the country.
And then, something happened.
And there is probably a lot of room for debate on, exactly, where it all started to go to shit. But the end result was Trump: a president who delegated the entire health and public safety to the governors and thinks he has the power to contradict the health experts by understating the danger of coronavirus, in order to force them to open up the schools.
We're still grappling with the ballooning numbers of sick people because they opened businesses too early, and now he wants to open the schools!
This is not just crazy and dangerous, it's the fucking ass example of crazy and dangerous. He has done NOTHING to protect us, and is now using his power to put our families in further danger.
That's my final assessment of Trump: Crazy and dangerous.