US EditionIs the Trump Administration Incompetence or Just Plain Stupid?
The Trump 2.0 administration’s mix of systemic failures and routine mismanagement led to over 1,000 CDC staff firings and complicated immigration and military operations, officials said.
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Strategic Incompetence in the Age of Trump
Donald Trump by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 / Flickr In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we're doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. By Rebecca Gordon / TomDispatch I first heard the expression “strategic incompetence” in El Salvador in December 1993. Along with my partner and two friends,…
Is the Trump administration incompetence or just plain stupid?
I first heard the expression “strategic incompetence” in El Salvador in December 1993. Along with my partner and two friends, I’d been recruited to do some electoral training there. We were working with the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, or FMLN, a coalition of leftist parties that had led a long-running guerrilla war against a series of US-backed autocratic governments. I’d visited El Salvador once before, during the 1989 elections,…
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