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It's not new, but I came across this yesterday:
A lot of top politicians believe things that are demonstrably wrong. It can be due to Dunning-Kruger, cognitive closure, ideological alignment, etc. It might be part of the psychological makeup of senior executives--they have to make a decision and see it through, can't change course without losing face. Reflection is for nerds. But Trump goes beyond this.
The predictable happens:
Maybe Rex Tillerson Was Right. Maybe Donald Trump Really Is Just A Moron.
Striking Iranian nuclear sites, deploying ICE en masse across the country, cutting Medicaid, extending and deepening tax cuts, defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — all of these things might have happened under any GOP president, particularly one who rode to power on anti-establishment, anti-elite populism. ... A host of other Trump decisions, though, do not spring from well-developed or even hastily dashed-off ideologies. There is no conservative think tank, for example, churning out white papers proposing to end wildfires by dumping water into the ground 200 miles away. They result from the nation’s 47th president believing something comically incorrect and clinging to it in the face of all evidence to the contrary.
They happen because the president is astonishingly ignorant — in the words of one of his top advisers in the first term, “a moron.”
A lot of top politicians believe things that are demonstrably wrong. It can be due to Dunning-Kruger, cognitive closure, ideological alignment, etc. It might be part of the psychological makeup of senior executives--they have to make a decision and see it through, can't change course without losing face. Reflection is for nerds. But Trump goes beyond this.
Among the biggest challenges faced by his aides during his first term was countering Trump’s predilection for believing outlandish claims, regardless of their source, even though he had at his fingertips a vast network of agencies created specifically to obtain and catalogue information.
Instead, Trump solicits the opinions of his old friends in New York real estate and the members of his various country clubs in Florida and New Jersey, those close to him say. And when no one in the White House or his agencies is willing to correct him, the predictable happens.
“He talks to people who are members of the Mar-a-Lago club, or he talks to people at receptions, and they tell him things, and he takes them as true, even if his intelligence people are telling him to the contrary,” Bolton said.
The predictable happens:
