Here's the statist you're expecting, Ken. Trump's Washington already beginning to look like Russia's and China's command economy, directing everything---industry, trade, social services, diplomacy--- if we can take the president at his word, while his intelligence agencies investigate his interests with Putin.
You haven't forgotten that Lenin's New Economic Policy allowed capitalism to continue and move gradually and incrementally toward socialism. Publicly admiring Russia and Putin, Trump's injecting socialism to the United States in one fell swoop. Expect joint manoeuvres with Red Navy soon, no need for NATO, eh?
A student of Russia and totalitarianism wouldn't have forgotten one of the last letters from a dying Lenin about Stalin's concentration of unlimited power. "I am not convinced he will always use that power with sufficient care." He urged the Party to get rid of him for someone "more tolerant."
America has a Communist-admiring czar.
