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The Radical Center | The WSJ’s Trump Smokescreen
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The Wall Street Journal editorial board traffics in baseless doubt-casting and bunk. The president seems delighted.
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The Wall Street Journal editorial board traffics in baseless doubt-casting and bunk. The president seems delighted.
Trump has a new scandal every week. Actually, it’s probably more than that. I mean, really, it would be a lot more productive if all the newspapers stopped writing about Trump and just formed a separate, side newspaper that only reports on Trump. There’d be enough material to fill an issue every day. Guaranteed.
Most people probably think at this point that Trump is not very competent. It certainly seems to be a reasonable conclusion, considering the non-stop flow of fiascos – Muslim ban, Jeff Sessions, now the Obama wiretap tweets – all in his first month or so. Now, I’m not saying Trump isn’t stupid, but I’d like to consider an alternative: that Trump is in fact extremely competent, that his staff is competent and that they are all in league with Putin. Let’s see how well this theory holds up to stress. I mean, for me it’s hard to totally dismiss the Trump team after they managed to win the general election with no pre-existing reputation in politics (outside the birther movement).