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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

Thursday, April 23, 2026

Broken People

 Trump is a "broken person." He is fundamentally a bad person because something in him broke, making him the malignant narcissist we see today. We can certainly bemoan the emotionally manipulative parenting or the malign influence of wealth that made him this way, but there is simply something broken in the man.

What's crazy is how other broken people have flocked to him and staffed his administration. I mean, Pete Hegseth? Hegseth, though, was a Cabinet appointment. He appealed to Trump via Fox News. He "looked" like someone who was a "war fighter" whatever that means.

Now, we have someone like Julia Varvaro, who is apparently in the soft edges of prostitution. She became Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism, despite having few qualifications. Now she's accused of soliciting money in return for her company.

"How does Trump attract these people?" isn't the right question. The right question is why we elected the sort of cretin that attracts these people. 

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