“It is Britain’s misfortune to have been ruled by... entitled men who don’t feel they need to master a brief, and sneer at those who have to endure the consequences of their actions.“ nybooks.com/articles/2019/
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“Boris Johnson’s improbable upward trajectory is, for example, entirely due to his pitch-perfect performance in the stock role of the rakish comedy toff, a figure whose avarice and incompetence is indulged because it is somehow enjoyable to watch him getting away with things.”
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that seems to generalize well, so many characters on the world stage today seem like they're out of bad tropey books. Perhaps that's their adaptive success strategy: fictional familiarity as a stealth strategy.

