Bush Backs E.U. Plan on Global Financial Reform

One manifestation of weak cognitive immunity is projecting political aspirations onto the ballot box.

[W]thout inflation and high gasoline prices ... Trump and his cabinet of brutally unqualified sycophants and the cowardly Republican Party would not have been punished so severely.

Average voters do not primarily cast ballots for abstract strategic outcomes or distant conflicts; they vote to keep the lights on and the rent paid.

[T]he Democrats' advantage is overwhelming. But Trump has pursued a policy of increasingly concentrating power in his own hands and circumventing both Congress and the courts.

[I]ts greatest flaw lies in moving the power of decision in presidential elections from the people ... to the Electoral College, whose members represent the states.