His first term he was surrounded by extremely competent and serious people, especially early on. Yes, they got whittled away over time, but they were still a major mitigating factor on his stupidity.
Mattis, Tillerson, Barr, Acosta, Azar, Pompeo, Kelly, Mnuchin are all (surprisingly) god-tier thinkers compared to the current clown car.
I was thinking something very similar. Once you've accepted any need at all for global state the next move is to reorient to minimizing it with horizontally scalable point local state and a small targeting dataset and tiered caching system.
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