Yeah good points. As long as there is a government, what is best is a monarch. Unfortunately our empire is so overgrown and gives all the wrong kinds of power to the president, all the wrong incentives, and very few of the good ones, the ones that would tend to allow him to really get things in line, like selling off assets and cutting bureaucracy unilaterally. He can do some of that, but not all. He's using what little management they offer him though.

Trump is like a blind bulldozer driver that bumbles through government, knocking things down. He has the courage to remove dysfunction, but little insight on where it truly lies. He still will manage to demolish a lot in his presidency, and that's an extremely good term in politics, which usually only advances the degeneracy further.