Reading one report after another about the Biden-Harris camp’s appalling damage control operation, I could feel the presumption-of-competence I’d implicitly extended to them leaving my body.
…I for the first time truly felt in my gut the raw cynicism of the Democratic Party’s governing caste. I felt, vividly, why a sane person might prefer to vote for Trump over an asshole who insists we’re better off trusting them than our lyin’ eyes.
Arnold Kling, The Courtier Game