Yes, the SOTU was a pile of steaming statism. No question about that. But, Trump's job in this is to tear down the current iteration of statism and allow the next generation to define its terms. I don't think it will be as over-the-top Marxist as the current system.

Marxism is the dominant political ideology of the age and as it dies it will try to take the voluntary society down with it. That's why they keep on polluting the word 'capitalism' to mean corporatism. It's why they won't 'go gently into that good night.'

So, all I'm saying with all of my work is that there is an order of operations here that has to be respected. First, expose the system's true corruption for what it is. Then make the case that it was the system itself that was corrupt not the people who made it corrupt.

The system allows corrupt people a path to exercise their corruption and their lust to rule. That's what we're fighting ultimately and that's what we need to stay focused on in our discussions with people as this moves forward.

Trump is just a blunt instrument, a tool to bludgeon the forces of Marxism into submission. He's not a rebuilder.

This won't result in a flourishing anarchic society on the other side, but the pendulum will swing closer than it was during this cycle. This is a process not a state function.