Or has the US educational system degraded so much over the years that this critical concept is no longer being taught?

Obviously, this guy never read "How to Win friends and influence People".

This guy, Homan, a prime contributor to Trump's Project 2025 initiative and Fox News talking head, thinks like all schoolyard bullies do, that because he has a little power, he has ultimate power.

Not yet confirmed, Tom Holman is already threatening every state in the union that it 'will be his way, or the highway, and if they don't comply with his radical-right agenda he will personally cut off all federal funds to those who won't knuckle down to his extremist demands.

Hundreds of millions of Americans, Republican, Democrat, or Independent depend on these monies to fund Health care services, education, social services, infrastructure, and public safety, to name but a few., and this pipsqueak zealot who wouldn't dare open his mouth if he didn't have a neighborhood bully (Trump) to back him up, thinks he can intimidate the rest of society.

This is Maga at its worst, and Project 2025 at its worst. First, they are trying to menace the US Congress, and now every citizen in the union.

Look at this:

The Washington Post

President-elect Donald Trump’s ‘border czar’ nominee Tom Homan promised to slash federal funding to states who don’t work with his new immigration policies while admitting he has received death threats.

Homan appeared on Mark Levin’s show, Life, Liberty and Levin, on Sunday for an interview discussing the “border crisis.”

Levin, a Trump supporter, told Homan he has a “powerful weapon” to use against governors–notably from sanctuary cities–who refuse to cooperate with the Trump administrations plans. “If you have a governor who says, ‘I’m not going to cooperate'...then federal funds should be slashed to that state, and I mean hugely so, so that the people of that state understand that the governor is the responsible party,” Levin said.

Homan replied in the positive. “And that’s going to happen, Guaranteed, President Trump is going to do that,” he said.

Homan then claimed he was “being attacked” and that his family had been forced to move out of his home. “This administration has turned this world upside down, so now I’m being attacked,” Homan said. “I got death threats, my family’s not even living in my home right now,” he continued, without adding further context.

“You can hate Trump all you want, but you gotta love your community more than you hate President Trump,” Homan said.

Last week, Homan warned Democratic governors who pushed back on Fox and Friends, to “get the hell out of the way” and “don’t cross that line.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-border-czar-makes-big-promise-if-states-don-t-cooperate/ar-AA1uGPTF?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=87d7f4e44a5e456a89dcc9ca64c8d8a3&ei=59

In his latest Thanksgiving post, he wished everyone a Happy Thanksgiving, "Even to the radical left lunatics." Listen, I never expect this man to be anything more than abusive toward his non-supporters, but damn, does he not possess the brains to at least try (lol) to be a bit less imprudent? Like, at lease show a modicum of interest to unite us, even though he'd be bluffing. Even during the 2016 election, he at least had the audacity to say, "I will be a president for everyone.

We are truly living in a land governed by five-year olds with Oppositional Defiant Disorder AND malignant narcissism.