Funny how you say it as a slam even without realizing how much truth is in your words.
Every promise made by politicians, even Trump, is premised on the idea that a year from now the world will be the same. Trump is product of his experience. Herbert Hoover was also, and when the economy tanked in 1930 Hoover turned to the past for his remedies. So we got Smoot-Hawley. The following year he was deeply involved in the international crisis and failed to come up with a remedy. You are putting a lot of trust in a man close to seventy hoping he would be as great as opportunist as, Lenin or Hitler, or indeed, Churchill and can seize the moment. I think back to 1940 when Wendell Wilkie was able to seize the Republican nomination. Wilkie had many of he qualities as Trump and had been a Democrat. In truth, though, he looked at the world pretty much as FDR did. Is Trump that much different from Romney et al, except he is as a brilliant campaigner as Romney was a dull one?