The feral government has no idea how much they are alienating people both in the US and overseas. After all the Neo-cons & Dem establishment thinks that they have all reasonable views covered between themselves. The reputable news agencies all agree with them right?
The good news is that Trump, Putin & others are holding them back from causing too much problems. The bad news, I still don't see how the Americans aren't going to go through bad shit. Americans have allowed the US Gov to create so much collective Negative Karma.
Tinman, I agree with you completely on that. These people have so little clue as to what their policies bring. It's the same in markets with these egghead economists who run uncontrolled thought experiments on the economy and then blame 'market failures' when things don't go to plan.