Like many before him, Ezra Klein observes that, based on its spending priorities, the federal government is an insurance company protected by a large military. More unusually, Klein concludes from this that the president’s job is to be a risk manager; it logically follows that Trump is a miserable failure. Is he right?
If your vote is determined by your economic self-interest, absolutely. However, if you’re an identity or vision voter, and the risk that you fear the most is rule by people other than what you consider to be “real Americans,” no. If you belong to the latter group, you elected Trump to disrupt the system, so if chaos ensured, he’s just doing his job.