It’s not just that President Trump serially lies in plain sight. It’s that he’s surrounded by occluders and toadies, nihilist tricksters spun directly from the looms of the Marx Brothers’ imagination. Any public servant who dares say that two plus two just might equal four is immediately accused by Trump of radicalism, treason, witch hunting. Compare that with President Barack Obama’s relationship with those who inconvenienced him. Yet Obama still behaved warmly toward him, according to James Stewart in his new book, “Deep State.” Why?

Source: New York Times October 25, 2019 16:07 UTC