The difference between Donald Trump and children is that children are usually protected and guided. If you realize how fearless and reckless seven-year-old boys are, you would never let them loose. If you realize how naive and vulnerable seven-year-old girls are, you would never let them loose, either.
There are reasons for not letting people under 16 get any right to drive cars without adult supervision.
Donald Trump has a child-like level of moral 'sophistication'. This could be that he is even less mature morally and emotionally than he is intellectually, which manifests itself even in his taste in decoration. (Check my thread on Donald Trump and Dictatorial Taste, and you will find some people of great power and little substance as shown in their amorality... Nicolae Ceausescu, Saddam Hussein, Victor Yanukovich, Ferdinand Marcos, Moammar Qaddafi, Emperor Bokassa I, Hermann Goering, Mobutu, and Donald Trump. For an analogue outside of politics I introduced some drug kingpins, and for a contrast to show that it isn't simply power I used the comparatively austere setting of the residence of the British Prime Minister. Residents have included Sir Winston Churchill, who as wartime Prime Minister had to do about everything but rig elections, loot his country's wealth, and order the killing of rivals or dissidents (and needed every power but those to conduct the war, but had no need for murder, theft, or electoral fraud) ... and Margaret Thatcher. A Prime Minister whose natural constituency is working people and who might have been one himself has no desire to intimidate people similar to him in origins, and someone like Margaret Thatcher might want to avoid scaring off small-business owners who are the natural constituency of her Conservative Party.
There are reasons for not letting people under 16 get any right to drive cars without adult supervision.
Donald Trump has a child-like level of moral 'sophistication'. This could be that he is even less mature morally and emotionally than he is intellectually, which manifests itself even in his taste in decoration. (Check my thread on Donald Trump and Dictatorial Taste, and you will find some people of great power and little substance as shown in their amorality... Nicolae Ceausescu, Saddam Hussein, Victor Yanukovich, Ferdinand Marcos, Moammar Qaddafi, Emperor Bokassa I, Hermann Goering, Mobutu, and Donald Trump. For an analogue outside of politics I introduced some drug kingpins, and for a contrast to show that it isn't simply power I used the comparatively austere setting of the residence of the British Prime Minister. Residents have included Sir Winston Churchill, who as wartime Prime Minister had to do about everything but rig elections, loot his country's wealth, and order the killing of rivals or dissidents (and needed every power but those to conduct the war, but had no need for murder, theft, or electoral fraud) ... and Margaret Thatcher. A Prime Minister whose natural constituency is working people and who might have been one himself has no desire to intimidate people similar to him in origins, and someone like Margaret Thatcher might want to avoid scaring off small-business owners who are the natural constituency of her Conservative Party.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.