Papering the record for appeal.
November 14, 2022
Monday
¶I think Brian Eno has a copy of the Trump playbook: Create chaos, project certainty, reap rewards.
¶“For people like Steve Bannon, destruction is their main tool. That famous statement he said: ‘Flood the zone with [expletive].’ This is more and more what populists do. They think, OK, if we can create chaos, we know how to benefit. Because in chaos people retreat to those who look like they’re certain.”
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