.......”If there is a chance at fixing the mess that politicians have caused, it is going to take not just a skilled executive, but someone who is a master at getting people to go along with his vision”..........
Trump is not a master at getting people to go along with his vision...because he’s not a listener which lends to his being impulsive and emotionally reactive, we saw that during the debates..... He also is surrounded by people who cut him slack out of fear of upsetting him, or relief him of the responsibility of ‘self monitoring’ which reflection is not even close to one of his strengths...rather he’s about saving face.
You may see Government and Business as on the same level but they are in fact two pees in a pod....one without the other you are wanting....Trump is lacking entirely in the political understanding of how Government works.....Gov. is far more than pushing papers across a desk.
Trump, just like any other successful executive, surrounds himself with people who are experts in the areas where he needs expertise.
People like what you describe, who surround themselves with "yes-men" don't accomplish much and very often fail spectacularly. That is because megalomaniacs who refuse to listen or who scare their subordinates into telling them only what they want to know do not actually know what is going on in their own organization. If something is going wrong, they don't know it because all they hear is how positive things are going. Whereas successful people listen when their subordinates tell them something is going wrong, because they want to fix it before it causes real problems.
If anything, the stories I've read of Cruz indicate that he is exactly the kind of person who will not listen to anyone but himself. That is just one of the reason he is not presidential material--he'd just be a third Obama term, really.
Trump is lacking entirely in the political understanding of how Government works.....Gov. is far more than pushing papers across a desk.
Oh, I'm certain that Trump knows quite well how the government works. He can't be a businessman at his level without running into government red tape and petty officials all the time. He doesn't just have an understanding of how government works, he understands just how malignant our political class has become and how much they stifle economy and freedom.
If you think that all government workers do is push papers across a desk, it is quite clear that you have no idea what they do. Government agencies are as corporate as any private business, and operate on the same basic principles.
The major problem with government is that it *is* a business, and yet we keep electing bozo lawyers who have no idea how a business runs--and they mess it up royally. No understanding of economics, no understanding of the proper use of regulations, no clue just how burdensome their tons of laws really are. It would be great, IMO, to relegate lawyers to staff positions, and elect lawmakers who are professionals in various fields, who bring their unique perspectives to the table.