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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Sunday, December 31, 2017

This Man Should Not Be President

Been feeling pretty sick the last few days, but I can't say my health improved by reading Trump's "interview" with the NYTimes.  As Charlie Pierce notes, this is the exposure of a man in cognitive decline.  Trump was never a smart man, but he is now a stupid man in serious cognitive decline.

As Ezra Klein points out, Trump also manifests the Dunning-Kruger effect, where the least competent people often feel they are the most competent.  You simply don't know what you don't know.

In either case, Donald Trump - left to his own words and devices - incriminates himself at every step.

And it's still not enough to get Republicans to put country over party.

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