My buddy Dave’s partial description includes: Trump sees the entire world as an endless opportunity to threaten to “burn it all down” (whether by arbitrary and punitive tariffs, obscenely frivolous lawsuits, bribery, blackmail or blunt force military action) unless he gets his way. And an opportunity to get fabulously rich off the mobster’s omnivorous blackmail and graft in the process. That’s why he so openly admires other mob bosses like Putin, Xi, Kim, Erdogan, Bukele, et al. Those are his “fellow mobsters” who operate in a world absent any principles other than raw power. A world that Trump sees as his oyster to be plundered and subverted to gratify his ego and fatten his wallet. We no longer live in a democracy – or even in a teetering, exhausted republic. We now live under the Black Hand of Trump’s “family business” - run by a ruthless and psychopathic mobster who sees the entire nation (not to mention the larger world) as his personal fi...