Is Trump’s Disruptive Change the real “Great Reset”?

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Disruptive change refers to a significant transformation in an industry or market that arises from the introduction of new technologies, business models, or products that challenge the established order. Unlike incremental changes, which improve existing systems, disruptive changes upend traditional ways of doing business, often making old products or services obsolete.

Initially, these innovations may be considered inferior or viewed with suspicion by mainstream consumers but eventually they gain traction by capturing new markets or by redefining the existing ones. Examples include the rise of digital photography disrupting film, or how streaming services have transformed the entertainment industry.

Disruptive change forces companies to adapt or risk being displaced.

However, disruptive change is bigger than mere market shifts; it fundamentally alters societal norms, behaviors, and structures.

Imagine Uber not just as a transport service but as a catalyst that redefined urban mobility and work flexibility. Similarly, the rise of social media platforms has not only changed how we communicate but also how we perceive news, privacy, identity, and celebrity. These changes ripple through culture, reshaping art, music, and even language.

At its core, disruptive change questions the status quo, pushing society towards new norms, often faster than we adapt, creating both innovation and cultural upheaval.

The Trump Administration has learned from the recent trends for Disruptive Change and has a few shake-ups of its own in mind.

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I want to talk about disruptive change.

I’m disheartened to see so many MAGA supporters saying that Trump’s Cabinet picks won’t be able to beat The Swamp. This is particularly true with Trump’s latest pick of Pete Hegseth as SecDef. Pete is a warrior who never saw the E Ring of the Pentagon, and some Trump supporters are saying the Military/Industrial Complex and the Pentagon Deep State will make mincemeat of him.

I disagree.

Pete represents disruptive change, just like Elon/Vivek in DOGE and the rest of the Trump ’47 team.

Trump learned his lesson in his first term when he wrongfully trusted the Beltway insiders, and he has seen the error of his ways. Even better than that, he has had four years to figure how to make things right.

History is replete with examples of effective disruptive change. Effective disruptive change is when a system is failing, and a dynamic visionary radically wrecks the old system and simultaneously builds it anew in a better way.

Moses.

Leonardo da Vinci.

Galileo.

Martin Luther.

Abraham Lincoln.

Louis Pasteur.

Henry Ford.

Thomas Edison.

General George C . Marshall.

Jackie Robinson.

Ronald Reagan.

Margaret Thatcher.

Pope John Paul II.

Steve Jobs.

Elon Musk.

Donald Trump.

Change agents, every last one of them.

When entrenched systems fail, change agent visionaries know that radical new ideas are needed to come in and wreck the old system while building an effective new system inside the ruins of the old one.

Donald Tump is such a visionary change agent, and he is picking kindred change agent spirits like Pete Hegseth to tear things down and build a better day anew. Pete knows the rot that has infested the DoD, because he was on the receiving end of it as a dirty boots infantryman. His books express the sort of radical reimagining of the DoD that is typical of all visionary change agents.

Will Pete Hegseth face intense bureaucratic resistance to the radical change that is so necessary to return our military to an effective warfighting force? Of course he will. Is his resume one that lacks experience in the entrenched Pentagon budget battles that everyone thinks are the defining characteristic of classic senior defense leadership? Yes it does.

I don’t care.

Radical change is necessary, and radical leadership choices are required to make that happen.

It will be a hard slog, and there will be defeats on the way to victory. But constructive radical change WILL happen, because I trust Donald Trump’s vision.

Let’s get behind that vision and make it work.