Blog Credo

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

Thursday, January 4, 2018

Wolff At The Door

The fallout continues from Michael Wolff's "tell-all" book about the Trump White House.  Because the Trump Crew are incompetent, they aren't able to settle on a strategy.  They call the book lies, then send a "cease and desist" letter to Bannon (for quotes he already provided).

There is ample reason to believe that many of the particulars of the book are imagined or stretched to make a point.  There is also ample reason to believe that the larger gist of the book perfectly captures this Versailles of the Very Stupid. 

Wolff's reporting on Ivanka Trump's disrespect for her father is the sort that could unmoor him.  He's a deeply stupid person - according to the people who know him, apparently - and has few emotional resources.

Hopefully he flames out before he starts a war.

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