“Morons,
I've got morons on my team.. We're not going to be ambushed going DOWN the mountain, we have no money going DOWN the mountain."
----Struther Martin in “Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid”
As
the great character actor put it, we've got morons on our team. And,
as economist and commentator Paul Krugman points out: “You
can't fully make sense of his policy pratfalls without acknowledging
the extraordinary quality of the people with whom he has surrounded
himself. And by 'extraordinary,' of course, I mean extraordinarily
low quality. Lincoln had a team of rivals; Trump has a team of
morons.” (1)
Krugman, as examples of the daily train wreck that is this
maladministration cites the Chairman of tRUMP's council of Economic
Advisers who opined that federal workers on furlough were 'better
off' because “they are getting time off without having to
use any of their vacation days”. Aping
the man at the top at the practiced art of heaping heartless cruelty upon a population now
lining up at food banks, the men and women circling Disgustus are
drawn to the stench of the 'fucking moron' like a vulture at a road
kill.
Consider,
if you will, Seen Hannity, he of Faux News and, like a number of other brainless talking heads, adviser to the
'president' of the United States. Hannity squeals about taxing the
rich because so hampered they won't be able to buy those yachts and
go on those expensive vacations. Oh! The injustice!
“What's
amazing”, writes Klugman, “is
that they are so out of it that they don't know how to pretend to
care about the middle class, or what nonsense to spout in order to
sustain that pretense.” (2) This
is nothing new, John McCain ran an entire presidential campaign
without ever once uttering the words middle class.
Krugman
cites the reason for this myopia as twofold: first that the
conservatives have enclosed themselves in a bubble. They have become
a cult in which “contempt for ordinary working Americans
is widespread—remember Eric Cantor, the then House majority leader,
celebrating Labor Day by praising business owners.” Indeed,
conservatives cannot mention labor, much less speak of Labor Day
unless through gritted teeth.
Then
there is, as Krugman points out, the “tRUMP effect”. “Normally
working for the president of the United States is a career booster,
something that looks good on your resume. Trump's presidency,
however, is so chaotic, corrupt and potentially compromised by his
foreign entanglements that anyone associated with it gets
tainted—which is why after only two years he has already left a
trail of broken men and wrecked reputations in his wake.
“So
who is willing to serve him at this point? Only those with no
reputation to lose, generally because they're pretty bad at what they
do.” (3) I give you as the
latest example of inspired ineptitude, Rudy Giuliani, tRUMP's
attorney.
Indeed
it is government characterized by Krugman as by the “worst
and dumbest”.
“We will have only the best people...the best
people...and the smartest too”, our very own 'stable genius'
assured the unwashed. In tRUMPspeak this means that he was about to
plumb the dregs and make a pig's breakfast of it all.
“An Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh”
Impeach and Imprison.
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- Krugman, Paul. “Donald Trump And His Team of Morons” The New York Times. Tuesday, January 15, 2019: Page A23.
- Ibid
- ibid
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