47’s time in office has been going hopelessly wrong.

I am sure he thought that the stars were aligned and his Machiavellian genius would take care of the rest.

Dodging a literal bullet, beating the rap four times over, and winning the White House with dutiful and obedient morally and intellectually stunted lapdogs who could never get a position of power and thus would be loyal was his idea of a winning strategy.

Except those days are long gone. Cue in Yakety Sax.

Primal thinkers don’t get it: their scaffolding ended during the Second World War, and brains no longer function that way.

The analytical thinkers took over, and their reign ended in 2020.

And we are now six years in an emotional scaffolding, except it’s not obvious, the same way it wasn’t obvious during World War Two.

Trump has tried every propagandistic trick in the book that used to work on all the masses.

Except it just works on primal thinkers, no one else. MAGA are uniliterate primal thinkers who are blind to analytical and emotional thinking; so they honestly believe everyone is going to just stop fighting for their place, give up, and let them rule and delude themselves into being seen as superior to everyone else.

Yeah, not happening.

Trump can insult people who see him for who he is, but he should remember that every time you point a finger of blame, three fingers point back at you.

No matter how short those fingers happen to be.

So let’s recount Trump’s many missteps, shall we?

First, turning on allied nations with threats and tariffs: Turning on Canada? Really? They are bigger than the entire United States and you’re threatening to turn them into the 51st state? That doesn’t sound scary; that sounds stupid.

And threatening tariffs on a country you rely on for water, electricity, nickel, cobalt, lithium, potash, and rare earths that the U.S. and AI/data-center boom depend on, as if no other country is going to jump in and replace your nation? Really?

You don’t menacingly shake your fist at the linchpin of your EVs, your fertilizer, your data centers, and your water and expect anyone but your most gullible followers to be impressed.

Second, alienating everyone with illegal tariffs: A real knee-slapper. You promise not to tax your citizens and then tax them with tariffs they either pay directly or pay through companies passing their tariffs on to the consumer.

All it did was get the European Union to actually unify, making deals with other blocs, and get Canada and China back to being trade partners. And, after all that, your stacked Supreme Court had no choice but to rule your illegal tariffs illegal and force refunds…within 45 days, not the five years you hoped would make the refunds go away. The refunds are not some tiny technicality: estimates put collected duties in the $130 billion range, with refunds plus interest potentially reaching about $175 billion. Your “no new taxes” shtick ended in a shadow sales tax that your own courts then detonated under you.

To top it all off, tourism soured, and companies lost a lot of sales. Well played there, buddy.

Third, unleashing ICE on harmless people: Killing an American nurse and a mom who posed no threat was vile. Racially profiling citizens with some pigment in their skin was just as vile. Terrorizing legal immigrants were attacked and even the illegal ones who were doing jobs no one else wanted was also vile. You promised to “get the animals.” What you delivered were body bags for nurses, line cooks, gardeners, and parents on their way to work.

That was all before it became clear to even obtuse people that you had a lot of fun with Jeffrey Epstein and his little friendship club. That’s when your cocky demeanour wasn’t so cocky, anymore.

You started to turn on your faithful, like Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene.

And then out of the blue, you started a war with Iran.

War is the ultimate theatre and misdirection. Once upon a time, it worked.

And now, it draws attention to the very thing you want hidden.

A vocal minority may not have the courage or morals to admit they were played, but they don’t decide elections. Independents do, and you snookered them real good in 2024.

They remember. They don’t forget.

And they don’t make the same mistake twice. You can’t shame or bully them into voting for you a second time. You can’t bring them into your cult. They’re Independents for a reason.

Unemployment has gone up. So has inflation. You can’t tell an unemployed white collar worker with student debt and a grad degree that the economy is doing swell.

You spending money on bombs means you’re not spending money at home.

And as for your faithful, I remember the childish way they fantasized out loud about all the fairytale factories that were going to be built to “fix” their communities. They had no idea this can take over a decade: from getting zoning approval to upgrading infrastructure to training a workforce to manufacturing the machines needed to keep that factory going (something you, of all people, know well)…all while China is a well-oiled machine that now has dark factories.

You can’t compete with that.

So you bomb Iran, hoping to cut off cheap oil to China, hoping that everyone would support the House and Senate during the mid-terms because voters usually don’t vote flip a House or Senate during a war.

Hoping that act would shame people into not wanting to know just how far you went with your little buddy Epstein. Hoping people wouldn’t connect the dots.

It’s not working. And it won’t. You thought acting like a king would make you one the way it did during the primal era.

What’s worse for you is the rise of AI: the narcissism dismantler that is altering social media; the same social media that helped you get elected.

The primal tricks don’t work. Neither are the analytical ones you used like a Trojan horse.

And the emotional is your Kryptonite.

In the primal era, you were a bully. In the analytical era, you posed as a dealmaker. In the emotional era, you are a walking panic attack. That’s why the tricks don’t land.

Not anymore.