Corey Robin's Forty Years of The Firm: Trump and the Coasian Grotesque points to an element that pervades and obscures the political environment:

For what neoliberalism has meant, among other things, is not simply the rise of markets and money and all the rest; it has also meant, as Wendy Brown has argued so compellingly, the rise of economic modes of reason and their insertion into politics. Not just their insertion, but their domination. Such that our entire conception of political leadership is drawn from the world of the firm (that’s not Brown’s argument; it’s my tangent to her argument).

This observation is far from minimizing the differences between different political goals as expressions of what different voters want. But it does have a lot to do with what is considered possible for citizens to make and change.  As Robin says, the domination of this concept of leadership stands in the way of reviving the Left. In the interest of that revival, I am going to try find various ways to understand and express alternatives to that dominance.

In the context of the article seeing Trump as the end product of this fixed idea of leadership, his supporters display a profound passivity. Their desires and needs will be taken care of with the right manager in charge. Beyond the denunciations and dismay I express and feel for their choices and fears, the most important thing is to shake off the torpor and take more responsibility for what is happening.