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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

Friday, April 17, 2020

If You Want To Understand Trumpistan...

...read this book.

I'm only 80 pages in The Fifth Risk by Michael "The Big Short" Lewis, but it's an unbelievably prescient look at where we are in 2020 that was published back in 2018.  It's essentially about the Trump Transition of 2016-17, but really it exposes the impact that the awful nexus of ideology and stupidity that typifies Trumpist politics is having on our government's ability to do its job.

Covid-19 and the botched response was almost inevitable. 

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