"Perhaps we'll be saved by the sheer incompetence of President Trump's staff"

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CBC Radio, opinion piece: Perhaps we'll be saved by the sheer incompetence of President Trump's staff

Michael Enright raises an interesting question: "If African-Americans, the poor, women, immigrants, gays and Hispanics should be included in the national conversation, why not dummies?" He goes on to point out how many Republican politicians have been of less than stellar intellect, including Spiro Agnew (showing how long this has been going on), Sarah Palin, Mike Pence, and Dan Quayle.

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The problem is that although dummies have every right to represented adequately, a degree of good judgement is necessary for all representatives, otherwise they get played like fiddles and do not perform their jobs adequately.

And good judgement is usually something you find on the smarter end of the spectrum.

Case in point, the current administration has such poor judgement that the USA's own allies and friends wondering if it's worth keeping such close ties with the nation that cannot currently be relied upon and will likely remain deeply divided and unreliable for a good chunk of the 20's.