| Trump’s cult of loyalty breeds incompetence and corruption https://www.alternet.org/trump-loyalty-corruption/ |
History is strewn with the wreckage of dictatorships that have attracted and promoted incompetent lapdogs lacking talent or integrity. As Hannah Arendt explained in her classic The Origins of Totalitarianism:
Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.
https://www.alternet.org/trump-loyalty-corruption/
I invite you to read the entire commentary.
Sincerely,
Ed