Expertise is overrated, rely on your gut. Consult your proctologist. Sadly, this isn’t satire, just descriptive. Well, maybe the proctologist is satire…

At best, expertise is hired and tolerated when necessary. But it usually slows things down and slow = missed opportunities, right?

In other words, what we have running the country is really a fascist dictator.

Any "policy" is the result of how one person "feels" at any given moment.

The really odd part is the number of people who've been lead to believe this will somehow be good for them and the country. These folks are either choosing to ignore history or more likely, are just ignorant of it.

Still better than a policy written by war hawks.

Again: if you don't like Trump run meaningful opposition.

I think that's the wrong question to be asking. The people who elected Trump don't want a foreign policy. As much as possible, they want isolationism.

To the degree that we have to deal with other countries, they don't want anything that we'd recognize as "policy". That implies a lot of overhead and complexity that they feel is unnecessary.

Viewed that way, "foreign policy" is an outdated way of thinking. It's an artifact of entrenched, elitist bureaucracies. That's precisely the swamp that Trump was sent to drain.

I happen to think that this is a very bad idea, but if my ideas were so darn great, why didn't my side win the last election?

There are also Republicans who disagree, but they were also part of the bureaucracy to be swept aside. They have to choose whether they want to get on board with the new (better) way of thinking, or become irrelevant.

It's weird. I could post a story like this (slight political angle, but capable of yielding an interesting discussion) and it immediately gets flagged and never sees the light of day. I wonder if flagging is becoming counter-productive on HN.

Examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44319488

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44296904

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44276956