Something Is Rising In Trump’s Wake, But I Don’t Know Exactly What To Call It…

A friend suggested “Nincompopulism”, but I don’t like calling people names…

One of the things that’s really striking to me about stuff that keeps coming up recently, whether it’s in politics, or the economy, or health, or whatever, or wherever, is that people are doing a lot of noisy, boisterous stuff these days, perhaps with some short term objective in mind, but a lot seemingly just to tear things apart and jump around with no thought at all not one bit about what comes after. And what real destruction they may leave behind the havoc they wreak, which they’re doing sometimes just for fun, or so they say.

Like how did we wind up in a world where the main lesson many learned from the GameStop turmoil last week on Wall Street is not that cheating is wrong and needs to be fixed at the highest levels, but instead, everybody should be cheating?

So when Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) MA Tweeted:

She got attacked. From the left and right. From a lot of small investors who felt they’d finally found tools allowing them to…