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 14, 2021

Hollowing Out The Government

 At least part of the reason why the Capitol was unprepared for the Cracker Barrel Putsch last Wednesday is that Trump - and really the GOP - has hollowed out important functions of the government. They have also politicized the agencies to ignore rightist terror.

Biden has his work cut out for him.

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