Trump Will Want To Avoid Relying on Rhetoric and Celebratory Press Conferences Absent Concrete Achievements

Saying something important is simply not the same as doing something important.

The West has gotten into a terrible habit of mistaking words for deeds — and press conferences for reality.

Part of this comes from the rise of the academic world, in which people who have achieved nothing have enormous power over institutions – and confuse faculty lounge debates with the real world.

Another part of this problem comes from the mass media’…