The Elite Isn't Leading Anymore. It's Trapped.

The Business Model Of The Conservative Media Is Built On Two Elements: Provoking The Audience Into A Fever Of Indignation (to Keep Them Watching) And Fomenting Mistrust Of All Other Information Sources (so That They Never Change The Channel).

Donald Trump, As A Businessman, He's Not Much Of A Builder And He's Not Much Of Dealmaker And He Certainly Isn't Very Good At Making Expenses Line Up With Income. But He Is A Marketing Genius. He Must Have Seen An Empty Market Niche That No One But Him Filled.

By Abrogating All Moral Standards In Their War Against Israel, Arab And Muslim Leaders Initiated A Process Of Moral Collapse That Has Ended By Soaking Their Own Societies In Blood. The Terror They Intended To Inflict Only Upon Others Has Rebounded With A Hundred Times Greater Horror Upon Their Own Lands.

Normally What Happens In A New Presidency Is The President Has A Big Agenda, And Congress Is Full Of People With Human Weaknesses. And So The President Indulges The Human Weaknesses Of Members Of Congress In Order To Pass His Agenda. This Time It's The Other Way Around. Donald Trump Does Not Have Much Of An Agenda. Congress Burns With This Intense Republican Agenda And So Does Congress That Has To Put Up With The Human Weaknesses Of The President In Order To Get A Signature On The Things It Desperately Wants To Pass.

To Balance China, The Democracies Will Need New Friends - And India With Its Fast-growing Economy, Youthful Population, And Democratic Politics Seems The Obvious Candidate.