The past life experiences of our current president have not trained him well for his job. In his past life as a businessman, he was the ruler of all he surveyed and all in it. His past life as a reality star and public celebrity has been even worse, as these yield only to the likes of the Emperor Nero in treating the people around them like dirt.

Even his life as candidate did not teach him much, as he did not build a real coalition as much as exploit the anger of those treated badly by job loss and stagnation, and stoke the revulsion at Hillary Clinton, who proved too tone-deaf and corrupt to be borne. Imagine his shock when he came to White House and started to realize that, beyond being able to blow up the world by pressing a button, his powers were not what he thought. Aside from his own, there were two other branches of government, including the courts, which could reverse his decisions, and 538 members of Congress, with their separate backers and bases of power, acutely attuned to the ripples of change among their supporters, who put their interests ahead of his own.