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I'll be happy to defend Trump's foibles and missteps if you'd like to defend the Iraq War. Or the COVID response. Or Critical Race Theory and its formalization into academia and hiring practices. Affirmative action in college recruitment. The replication crisis. Politicians and NGOs openly lobbying for open borders and the immiseration of the working class. Every single brick of the system that held it up that is gone that you don't want to defend.
And my answer to that is: I don't know. I don't know how to fix the system. But a good start, in my mind, is getting rid of everyone responsible. And it seems like you're standing in the way... for no discernable reason at all.
I'll certainly not defend any of those, since the Iraq War and CRT were definite screwups, and stuff like the COVID response I don't know enough about one way or the other (it just wasn't an issue I ever looked into all that deeply). But stuff like the Iraq War and CRT can be defanged by building better institutions through iterative improvement, rather than replacing it with Trumpism which is just so much worse. One of the big fallacies a lot of populists make is that they believe since the previous systems weren't perfect in every way, then they should be burnt to the ground. Trump is rapidly proving why that's an awful idea.
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