We elected a fundamentally insecure man of invincible ignorance. He has surrounded himself with yes-men and flatterers most of whom are every bit as ignorant as he. So we are facing this Plague guided by people who were chosen for the job precisely because they don’t know what they’re doing. 

So a common characteristic of Trump and all his “best people” is an abject fear and, hence, hostility to anyone who is truly informed, and especially to anyone who is well informed and disagrees with them. We have seen a scandalous instance of this fear/hostility this week in the apoplexy of Peter Navarro at a recent meeting. Navarro is a trade adviser to Trump and chief instigator of our trade war with China. At a meeting of informed and responsible experts he tried to pitch hydroxychloroquine as a cure for corona virus and then threw a tantrum when the experts wouldn’t buy it.

All this carrying on about hydroxychloroquine, Trump’s drug of choice! I suppose he “feels” it would be effective or was told so by someone he respects, like Dr. Oz. Of course, the President has a natural gift for science and does not really need advice. But I am waiting to hear what Rudy Giulliani has to say, for his real area of expertise is snake oil.

P.S. Didn’t Mr. Modly, the Acting Secretary of the Navy, make an Acting Fool of himself in his denunciation of Captain Brett Crozier. However, I do think that in this case we were hearing his Master’s voice, for both content and style of his rant were Trumpian.