How is Trump getting away with this?

[HelloItsmeAgain1]

I just can't

He's a law unto himself

As in can't understand it. He is going to kill thousands and thousands of people, all for the economy.

Does he not realise he needs people to run it? Like, alive and well ones?

He gets away with it with the consent of the people. He was elected.
What would happen here if some mad bastard got elected? How would they be removed?

He was elected in.

There will come a point t where the longer term impacts to health of the economic damage outweigh the shorter term costs. The problem is nobody knows where that line is or if people will re-elect those who aim for it.

Some people are very persuaded by self-confident bullshitters.
The simpler their proposed solutions the more popular they are.

Bolsonaro, Duterte, Erdogan, Victor Orban, Farage. There's a lot of it about.

was finally put in charge.