{"id":94,"date":"2025-07-08T10:02:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T10:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/08\/trump-has-made-news-great-again\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T10:02:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T10:02:35","slug":"trump-has-made-news-great-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/08\/trump-has-made-news-great-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump has Made News Great Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Politics in hyperdrive. Who can keep up? And to what extent should one keep up? Here are a couple of articles that caught my eye:<\/span><\/p>\n

The Islamic Republic's New Lease on Life<\/a>. Mercifully brief, and very interesting.  In Foreign Affairs<\/em>, by one Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar.  I'd be interested in Caiati's and Soriano's comments. <\/span><\/p>\n

Elon Musk is America's Dumbest Smart Person<\/a>.  Roger Kimball is right, and he is a very good writer to boot,  unlike so many journo-punks now churning out bad prose. How do I know Kimball is a good writer? It takes one to know one.<\/span><\/p>\n

It's a f<\/span>unny world. My opinion of the 'pre-historic' Fetterman has gone up during the same period that my opinion of the engineering genius Musk has gone down.  <\/span><\/p>\n

I would put it like this. Donald Trump has injected the 'art of the deal' into politics. He has brought the transactional skills of a consummate businessman to bear with impressive results. He was<\/em> politically naive but the seemingly providential interregnum<\/em> provided him with a 'sabbatical' during which to 'bone up' with the help of brilliant advisors. That, and the stark contrast with the mentally inept, morally corrupt 'Traitor Joe' Biden have brought the Orange Man to power. Maybe God had a hand in it, or we just got lucky. I prefer not to bluster about the unknowable.<\/span><\/p>\n

Musk, on the other hand, remains politically naive. You can't engineer politics.  <\/span><\/p>\n

As for how much time should be spent following the events of the day, see my Is it Rational to be Politically Ignorant?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Musk's third party doesn't have a chance, and in any case, Third Parties<\/a> are nothing but discussion societies in political drag, as I argue over at the Stack.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Politics in hyperdrive. Who can keep up? And to what extent should one keep up? Here are a couple of articles that caught my eye: The Islamic Republic's New Lease on Life. Mercifully brief, and very interesting.  In Foreign Affairs, by one Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar.  I'd be interested in Caiati's and Soriano's comments.  Elon Musk … Continue reading “Trump has Made News Great Again”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,32,46,119,27,120,56,121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-matters","category-current-affairs","category-foreign-policy","category-islamism","category-maga-matters","category-media-matters","category-politics","category-populism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}