@havvyhh2@mas.to
"But it turns out that it was all in Hannah Arendt... classic book “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” she explained why totalitarians — I know, Trump isn’t a full-on dictator, yet, but he’s clearly a wannabe — promote the incompetent:
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."
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-political-economy-of-incompetence?