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bmichaelh

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Thu Aug 14, 2025, 05:50 AM Aug 2025

Trump's Incompetent Hacks [View all]

Trump will not like Paul Krugman's latest post.

Krugman quoted from historian Hannah Arendt:

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

"Let me call this Arendt’s Law: Totalitarian and wannabe totalitarian regimes only hire incompetent hacks," Krugman wrote.

https://www.rawstory.com/paul-krugman-2673883111/

For example, Trump has put a quack with no medical or scientific background in charge of healthcare.
RFK Jr will kill untold thousands, if not millions with his stance on mRNA vaccines.
mRNA technology could be used not just for future COVID or pandemics but for HIV and cancer vaccines.

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