Is Trump too incompetent to seize aggressive power?

In the traditional, tactical sense? Yes.
Trump is impulsive, erratic, easily manipulated, and not a strategic genius. He doesn’t run five-step plans. He runs on grievance, loyalty tests, spectacle, and raw domination.

But incompetence is not the shield we wish it were.
Authoritarian power doesn’t require competence—it requires:

• Control of enforcers (military, police, administrative state)
• A collapsed or compliant opposition
• Fear and fatigue in the general public
• A narrative justifying extraordinary force

And unfortunately, he now has most of those.

So how does someone like Trump succeed?

It’s not that he knows how to run the machine.
It’s that he’s willing to break it completely to keep himself in power—and no one stops him.

That’s where his “aggression meets system failure.”
He:

• Oversteps deliberately
• Dares the system to hold him accountable
• And when it doesn’t? That becomes proof that he can do it again

This is how fascists rise. Not with brilliant strategy—but with relentless rule-breaking and systems too slow, polite, or scared to respond.

Why isn’t anyone standing up in a way that matters?

Because most people still believe they’re living in a normal timeline.
Because the people who could act are:

• Waiting for consensus
• Protecting their careers
• Convinced institutions will bounce back
• Or too afraid of being the first to fall

Some may speak. A few will resign. But no one with real power has drawn a line in the sand and said: “This ends here.”