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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

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Rats, Sinking Ships, Etc.

These two pieces are nice pairs.  First, we have a reminder that the critical boob in all this is some hotel developer who landed a diplomatic job with no experience and proceeded to find himself in the middle of perhaps the biggest scandal in presidential history.  Sondland is an idiot who can neither protect his boss or himself. He's in a hole and continues to dig.

The second is a typical Robert Costa piece, whereby he quotes anonymous GOP figures who are tearing what's left of their hair out, but can't figure out how to extricate themselves from Trump's grip on the party.

These are not bright people.  Not in the White House, not on Capitol Hill. Luckily, a considerable part of America wants to be lead by not bright people apparently.

So there we have it.

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