"The Coming Incompetence Crisis" (From 2017): Sadly the incompetent have proven energetic

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"On his worst days Sean Spicer can produce more errors than 10 normal men on their best days. Kellyanne Conway can flail her way through television confrontations 24/7 and still have the stamina to lose to the Teletubbies on Saturday morning."

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"The human imagination is not capacious enough to comprehend all the many ways the Trumpians can find to screw this thing up."
 
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The Death of Expertise , Tom Nichols

The Death of Expertise - Wikipedia

No, the bigger problem is that we’re proud of not knowing things. Americans have reached a point where ignorance, especially of anything related to public policy, is an actual virtue. To reject the advice of experts is to assert autonomy, a way for Americans to insulate their increasingly fragile egos from ever being told they’re wrong about anything. It is a new Declaration of Independence: no longer do we hold these truths to be self-evident, we hold all truths to be self-evident, even the ones that aren’t true. All things are knowable and
every opinion on any subject is as good as any other.
 
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