In order to plan long term you need your short term plans figured out first.
Hard to think about vacation plans, if you’re actively bleeding out, because you had a choice of relatively shitty travel agent, and a murderer with a knife, and you went with murderer because the agent tried to push pretty bad vacation to you, and now you are lying in a parking lot being stabbed, by a murderer with a knife, who explicitly wanted to murder you with a knife.
But this metaphor aside, if your long term plans involved electing Trump, those were the shiftiest plans ever regardless, long term or not.
You have myopia and are incapable of planning long term.
In order to plan long term you need your short term plans figured out first.
Hard to think about vacation plans, if you’re actively bleeding out, because you had a choice of relatively shitty travel agent, and a murderer with a knife, and you went with murderer because the agent tried to push pretty bad vacation to you, and now you are lying in a parking lot being stabbed, by a murderer with a knife, who explicitly wanted to murder you with a knife.
But this metaphor aside, if your long term plans involved electing Trump, those were the shiftiest plans ever regardless, long term or not.