Poulantzas on why the job of the State Executive is essentially reactive crisis management (Trump will also exacerbate the crises, to begin with): '(S)tate activity is constituted as ad-hoc tinkering with conditions already laid down by the process of valorization of capital; that process itself is thus not susceptible to mastery by the State. Reproduction cannot be controlled without intervention in the hard core of the relations of production, since it is impossible to master the effects without reaching the causes. Measures taken by the State are thus essentially a posteriori interventions which tackle, as it were, the consequences and symptoms of the economic process, striving to regularize economic contradictions by means of reflex actions.'