During their first in-person meeting at the White House on Friday (November 21), Donald Trump told incoming New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani "you can just say yes" after a reporter asked whether Mamdani thought the U.S. president was a fascist. read more
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Hey, Sentinel. I went back to work and found this in a book I'm indexing on moral philosophy, reason, and changing one's cognitive stance. You can thank me in advance.
John Stuart Mill once had to do spin control on his description of the Conservatives as "the stupid party", and he glossed it by saying that he had not meant "that the Conservatives are generally stupid" but rather "that stupid people are generally Conservative" (R. Reeves, John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand, London: Atlantic Books 2007, 4).
Some things never change.