I ' ve had problems with Whitehead in the past . I ' ve tried both The Intuitionist and Zone One and had to give up on both of them . He seems more interested in playing abstract word games than in actually narrating a story . Maybe I ' ll have to give him another chance , this being an NBA winner and all . <| sep |> At the highest , most abstract level , the west is not remotely prepared for the impact if the world order imposed by US power for decades collapses . He is absolutely a threat to that . The post of Commander in Chief being held by someone of such little experience and seriousness with regard to international a f f a i r s t r u m p d o e s n t u n d e r s t a n d thevalueofusbasesoverseas and the balance of world power is pretty terrifying and will absolutely be taken advantage of . For example , before he ' s even taken office asiachina 38060980 TBH even internally I don ' t give a crap about what most of the US left are whining about , the risk of antiabortion legislation in certain states and so on , states like CA would never pass them so they ' ll always have somewhere to go , and that kind of thing can always be changed again later . Standard right wing stuff is to be expected , and isn ' t outside the norms . The risk is so much greater than the social shit they ' ve got used to complaining about for 40 years , it ' s more fundamental things like stability , maintaining democracy , press intimidation and preventing the abuse of power that matter when someone like Trump is in charge .