Sublime

At that moment, Sam was planning to give $15–$30 million to McConnell to defeat the Trumpier candidates in the US Senate races. On a separate front, he explained to me, as the plane descended into Washington, DC, he was exploring the legality of paying Donald Trump himself not to run for president. His team had somehow created a back channel into t

President Trump came into office promising to “drain the swamp,” a metaphor for attacking technocracy, but he had neither the clarity as to how to proceed nor the political base from which to do it.

Clinton’s Libya problem encapsulated the weak point of the technocracy. The argument for expertise as the basis for political authority depends on the experts’ success at managing both their small niche and society as a whole.