2016: "What if there was a guy who was MEAN but he got stuff DONE?" 2026: Gold-plated horse statues, deporting US citizens by accident, firing experienced bureaucrats and replacing them with ideological grifters, admitting to weaponizing the DOJ against critics, and somehow making it all worse. The con was always that competence + cruelty = results. Turns out you just get chaos with a higher body count.