Nails it: I warned of Trump’s attack on science. But I never predicted the horror that lay ahead by Ariel Dorfman

These critiques of his behavior, however valid, should not let us lose sight of something more fundamental that is going on. Today’s chaotic and bumbling response to this emergency is no accident, but deeply rooted and systemic, the direct result of a pattern of callow benightedness that verges on the criminal and that goes back to the very start of Trump’s regime, embedded in the very recalcitrant anti-intellectual DNA of this president and his followers.

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An old story. Further reading:

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter

The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies by Susan Jacoby