People expect a miracle-cure because Hollywood raised people to expect a hero.
How do movies work? There is a crisis, it gets worse and worse, until suddeny BAM a hero solves the problem.
It is a narrative that speaks to our desire to be a hero, to our hope of being a hero one day.
Republicans especially love this narrative how one spunky, down-to-earth hero will upstage these arrogant scientists.
* During the Obama-years, Republicans bragged how it's unnecessary to dosomething about global warming: Somebody will build something in his garage to solve it.
* Republicans imagine themselves heroes for saving an unborn child from abortion... but don't mind that child suffering from lack of healthcare and education.
It's all about a grandiose one-time gesture.
Life doesn't work this way. Most often, problems are not solved by one person doing one thing one time.
There is not one scientist who can do everything. Nowadays, most scientists are specialists than can talk in excrutiating detail about one field and very little about other fields. Research is done by everybody contributing their share and then throwing it all together.
Problems are not solved by "rugged individualists". That's a fairytale wannabes tell each other.
Grandiose one-time gestures don't solve problems. But that's all Trump knows how to do. He has no commitment, no loyalty. So, naturally, he is attracted to that narrative of doing one thing and then walking away.
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