The word “disrupt” became fashionable a few years ago in Silicon Valley entrepreneur circles, with new startups emerging in hopes of blowing up an existing industry. Uber would disrupt taxi cartels, Twitter would disrupt how we share information and so on. There’s a startup that exists in hopes of disrupting just about every industry, from sit-down restaurants to custom framing to laundry, and it is younger consumers in particular who are often drawn to these new ways of doing things.
As hot buzzwords go, “disrupt” has certainly reached saturation in the tech world. But it has also — as these things slowly but eventually do — reached Washington. President-elect Trump, praised as a “disruptor” by his admirers, will be sworn in as president in just two short weeks. After an election in which voters sent a wrecking ball crashing into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Donald Trump and his administration feel they have received a mandate to disrupt anything and everything along the way toward achieving Trump’s stated goal of “making America great again.”
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