That why they call it a long con. Maximum effect.
I am not saying that is what is going on. I just get a bit nervous that Trump makes so many mistakes. I know he is the only chance we have so I have to vote for him. There is no chance for this country if he does not retake the presidency. But I also know from thing like this that he says that he will do many disappointing things as well.
Nobody gets everything, in terms of ability. Nature always compensates in that people who have unusual skills always have crippling weaknesses as well.
Trump was the only possible America First populist who had the personal wealth, media skills and charisma to defeat the Bushes, defeat the Clintons and win the Presidency.
But he has very poor judgement when it comes to the motivations and capability of other people.
He goes by people who are nice to him, who flatter him, or are physically attractive, or who are good on TV, or who fit a physical archetype of what he thinks a position requires.
And choosing on those bases has burned him again and again and again.
In my view it is not possible to elect reform populist nationalists to actually change the direct of any of the Western countries. They are just too captured by Progressives.
We need Regime collapse, not reform.
But Trump is clearly a disruptive and destabilizing force, that weakens the Regime, and maybe accelerates future collapse.