And did I mention that what this man is actually spending all day every day doing is working to cut the American agency that aims to help the poor and vulnerable worldwide? So imagine not only deciding not to help anyone with your money but using all of your time to hurt the weak as much as you can

I am “optimistic” that things will be bad enough by this date.

Trump et al are using these tactics to reassert dominance and impose hierarchies they consider "natural" on every level. Men over women. Parents over children. White people over everyone else.  America over the world... The goal is far more ambitious than deregulation and privatization.