I hear what you are saying, and I do agree that the wealthy become more wealthy and the poor become more poor after a large collapse.

But I honestly do not think Trump and Elon are actually trying to fail this hard intentionally.

I genuinely believe they are so completely full of themselves that they think what they are doing... will actually work as they say it will.

The result is still the same, but I truly think that Trump and Elon will either be surprised when this all blows up in their faces, or further retreat into delusion, like Hitler in his bunker.

The people around them that are encouraging their actions? Many of them probably are smart enough to know how this will play out, but a lot of them are also very, very stupid.

Again I completely agree that the net outcome is easily discernible to a non lunatic, and a lot of non lunatics are cynically playing into all this... but we live in an era of increasingly widespread lunacy, of true believers that will have complete dissasociative personality collapse when they see all their ideas were wrong, or invent their own delusional alternate realities where they were in fact right and all bad news is deep state fake news illuminati lies.

I really do think a lot of these idiots believe their own bullshit to a significant degree and are not lying in the sense of saying one thing will happen when they know another thing actually will.

They're just actually insane.

The only real difference between Mike Lindell and Elon Musk is Elon got more buy in. Their mindsets are the same: They're right, because they believe they are, and to the extent they have money and influence, they'll invent their own realities to maintain their delusions.