Well, that's true on the yes men. He would fire anyone that disagrees with him! lol But in all fairness we probably needed an 'authoritarian' at this point to get us back on track. Let's hope he reins it in once we get thing working again. Bukele is the same figure in El Salvador - you needed to clean up the mess. As Maximus says, "I will give you Rome, and you decide what to do with it." Anything less and Trump has failed.

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.