America’s Horrifying Transition

Dr. Gregg Bloche, a friend who teaches at Georgetown Law School, said on a Zoom call yesterday that the U.S. has transitioned from “a cognitive to a non-cognitive” mode of politics and voting.

What a fantastic phrase.  It’s terrifying, of course, but it so accurately describes how it’s possible that a huge majority of Americans want to be led by a pathological liar, career criminal, and wanna-be dictator.

When I was a young boy, the parents of my little friends in my neighborhood in the Philadelphia suburbs weren’t rocket scientists, but they could (and did) read, and a person like Donald Trump would have carried less than 10% of the vote.

All that rationality and gentility has vanished in the blink of an eye.