Move fast and break things, they said

Trump took the tech bros boast and turned it into a principle of governance

It was Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook who said that to succeed, tech companies should move fast and break things. Things like copyright, defamation, and internet regulation. The law and the bureaucrats who administer it would always be one step behind the tech firms run by their brilliant engineers. That was the general idea. Donald Trump’speople are now turning it into a principle of governance.

As he stampedes through the fragile world order like a raging bull, the POTUS seems bent on breaking all the rules of civilised discourse in one go, leaving international lawyers, the media, and governments in a lather of confused indignation. One moment, the President of the United States is talking about purchasing Greenland and annexing Canada, and the next, he’s calling for the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip and war with Panama. Donald Trump does not have immunity from international law, but he is moving so fast that it can hardly keep up with him. He changes his mind from day to day, leaving his own bureaucrats dazed and confused.It is madness, but is there any method to it?