The US Government is Broken

I’ve lived in the United States for my entire life, but I’ve benefitted from extensive travel to Europe and Asia during the last 40 years. I appreciate the perspective of my friends who live in other countries. Balance. Which brings me to my current thought about the state of politics in the United States. I’ve observed Donald Trump since the early 1980s. He has always been controversial, brash, and a bad leader. Business surveys from the 1980s and 1990s consistently listed Trump’s companies as some of the worst places to work in the United States. It’s no surprise that his time as President of the United States resembles how he ran his companies. Disastrous. He has always been a low-talent grifter. His latest grift is on a different level. His recent settlement with the DOJ (himself) for his $10 billion lawsuit he filed after starting his second term. A President of the United States suing the United States after becoming President is unprecedented. Here’s the current outcome that…