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Some of Trump’s plans, to be sure, are ludicrously grandiose—like his idea to replace all income taxes with tariffs—and will encounter either legal problems even with this radicalized Supreme Court or difficulty moving through what is likely to be a closely divided Congress either way.

I’m not surprised if, like Anne Enright, the novelist from University College Dublin, writing for “On the Election” in the New York Review of Books, you vent your pent-up frustration over undecideds who are “lonely and sometimes pathetically grandiose.”

Still, the incident helped Papadopoulos rise from obscurity: He served just 12 days in prison in 2018 but was happy to publish a book with the grandiose title Deep State Target: How I Got Caught in the Crosshairs of the Plot to Bring Down President Trump.

Instead, elected officials and bureaucrats offer grandiose ideas, like making the Olympics car-free or closing off Wilshire Boulevard where it cuts through MacArthur Park.

It's why their love story is so grandiose in his head.