Jeffrey A. Tucker is musing about the difficulties President Trump is having and how it relates to the realities of being head of state. After a quick run from Plato to Auron MacIntyre, he notes that everything in politics is designed to prevent change. Every great interest is represented in government and the whole idea is to defend the interest against change. Big corporations have the Department of Commerce; Big Pharma has the Department of Health; Big Labor has the Department of Labor.

(And Big Protest has USAID).

But I think that everyone is missing the point. Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit gets it with his periodic warning about the next Carrington Event. The last one in 1859 melted a few telegraph stations. No problem because Thomas Edison didn’t build the Pearl St. generating station in NYC till 1882. Today a Carrington Event would probably take down the entire world’s electric system and the internet.

Instead of Carrington Events our rulers today worry about Climate Change.

But if the world’s electric system goes down, forget climate. Have the experts agreed on what to do? Is there a passionate Swedish teenager warning us of........

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