‘Stupidity,” Jean Cocteau remarked, “is all the time wonderful, regardless of how used to it you change into.”
We stay in a golden age of stupidity. It’s in every single place. President Biden’s conduct of the withdrawal from Afghanistan can be remembered as a defining stupidity of our time—considered one of many. The refusal of tens of tens of millions of individuals to be vaccinated in opposition to the novel coronavirus can be analyzed as a textbook case of stupidity en masse. Silly is as silly does, or, within the case of vaccination, because it doesn’t do. Stupidity and irresponsibility are evil twins.
The slow-motion zombies’ assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6 was a fittingly silly finale to the Trump years, which supplied dueling stupidities: Purchase one, get one free. The political events grew to become locked in a four-year drama of hysteria and mutually demeaning abuse. Each buffoonery of the president and his individuals was answered by an idiocy from the opposite aspect, which in its personal type was simply as sinister and simply as clownish.
Cable information offered the Greek refrain. American authorities and politics grew to become cartoons. The Democrats, all unknowing, performed Wile E. Coyote to Mr. Trump’s Highway Runner. Twice, the Democrats’ Acme Impeachment Committee rigged up the large bomb (heh heh), lit the fuse and held its ears. Each occasions, the Highway Runner sped away. Beep beep!
“Trump is loopy!” “Trump is Hitler!” “Trump is a Russian agent!” “Bob Mueller has the products!” Beep beep!
