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Wed Feb 12, 2025, 03:53 PM Feb 12

Dowd: Musk's 'Lost Boys' join Trump's 'Mean Girls' ethic to gut it all

By Maureen Dowd / The New York Times

Tom Stoppard wrote in “The Real Thing,” his enticing play about infidelity: “To marry one actress is unfortunate. To marry two is simply asking for it.”

Here’s a political corollary: To elect one Emperor of Chaos is unfortunate. To let two run the government is simply asking for it.

Presidents Donald Trump and Elon Musk have merged their cult followings, attention addictions, conspiratorial mindsets, disinformation artistry, disdain for the Constitution, talent for apocalyptic marketing and jumping-from-thing-to-thing styles.

With a pitiless and mindless velocity, they are running roughshod over the government; and the globe.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/dowd-musks-lost-boys-join-trumps-mean-girls-ethic-to-gut-it-all/

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