Isn't the argument not about Trump and his team being better, but about them being more effective? I don't think they need to be any better than last time to wreak more havoc, just simply not being inhibited from almost every branch of government due to subservience will probably be enough.

To draw a parallel to our extreme-right Wilders government coalition - 3 out of the 4 coalition parties are objectively incompetent at governing. The Farmer's Party managed to be so incompetent they gave away €20B in farmers' subsidies during coalition negotiations in exchange for nuthin'. The party who ran on better governance managed to admit to hide documents in their third week.

It is absolutely a clusterfuck, it absolutely leads to stupid and ineffective policies. There's a debate now about whether we can impose border controls again, which we can't and everyone knows it but Wilders wants his version of The Wall anyway. There, however, will also be inhumanely policies because that's what we're now facing: things like taking away passports from second or third generation immigrants, things like changing visums to be for a few years at most, things like making refugee camps so sober the line between camp and prison is almost entirely blurred.

I thought we couldn't go this inhumane, this low. I hoped their incompetence would prevent them from hurting too many people. But we can go this low, they'll dare you with how low they can go, and there's little we can do but watch in pain and hope.

And the general public doesn't seem to mind, or is happy that something is being done even if it doesn't work, will never work, will be hard to undo and repair. So I'm not so sure about that 'unpopular' part of the clusterfuck.