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It's funny, because if this were a large software project that was going awry for whatever reason, I don't think anyone here would suggest, "hey, this isn't going well, bring in that blowhard from marketing, at least that'll break it spectacularly!"

Not sure why it's different when it's your government we're talking about.

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That would be exactly what people would suggest, because they know from experience the "blowhard from marketing" will screw things up so badly, that the only viable option will be to start over with a clean slate. And that's exactly what's needed for a "large software project that was going awry" but it's always easier to say patch this here, tweak it there. Only when you can no longer patch and tweak yourself to anything functional will people actually clamor for a clean break.

That's why they vote for Trump. Nobody expects him to fix anything. They expect a clean slate at some point. Whether it's during his tenure or after, it's irrelevant. He's the catalyst.

It won't be a clean slate. It will be a very dirty slate, with the detritus of millions of ruined lives spattered around it.

A lot of what people hated about GWB was how he tried to turn Iraq and Afghanistan into a clean slate, and made a huge mess. Why would you want to do the same to USA (except out of some sense of radical fairness...)

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