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

Monday, January 6, 2020

The Drunken Tough Guy At The End of the Bar

Jon Chait notes how Donald Trump's foreign policy can basically be reduced to whatever the drunken bully at the end of the bar might rant while watching Fox News.  It's the erosion of American moral authority - to the degree that existed - and being replaced with whatever the muttering asshole who couldn't find Iran on a map thinks we should do to "prove we're tough."

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