No, he's just the sort of jackass who won't wear a seatbelt (or facemask) because he's told he has to, and now he thinks he has an excuse for it that people will sympathise with. He deserves to get ticketed so often he chokes on the wad of tickets.
There's an element of that, I'm sure. Insist adamantly your paradoxical claim is right, but don't explain why, and a chunk of the audience will just shrug and decide you must know what you're talking about and they just don't understand that finance stuff. So they won't question or doubt you in future because all they know is they don't get it.
I read this as:
Even if they recognize that he doesn't know what he is talking about - and some of them do - it's still more important to them to 'own the libs'.
You wouldn't want Vance as POTUS and Peter Thiel as veep.
That's going to set a much-needed cat among the pigeons. If the AG instructs the police that the "emergency police chief" is illegally appointed and has no authority, the standoff will be interesting to watch.
Consolidation of "law" "enforcement" into one body, to be called the Trump Force. DEA, FBI, ICE, and eventually the military. For use by the king against all his foes, domestic and domestic. Immigrants and the homeless are just the beginning.
