Trump should not be president for all the usual reasons, sure, but also because he’s a terrible administrator of the federal government. Terrible. It’s reasonable to expect an Obama or a Clinton to require that all federal buildings be energy self-sufficient by 2020 (for example), using federal policy and procedures to set precedents and do the right thing in a way that minimizes the impact on the campaign-contributing energy companies.

There’s no reason for Congress to oppose such policies as part of their scorched-earth legislative ethos: there are many more interesting chimeras they can use to fan the fires of unthinking, vote-winning anger.

I can’t imagine Trump or those he surrounds himself with thinking anything like this. It’s not that they don’t believe in government, it’s that they’re not interested in it at all.