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Kasey Coff's avatar

If "kakistrophic" doesn't make it as the OED's new word of the year, you will have been robbed!

Ken C's avatar
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Another element of this “kakistrophic”president is his superpower of denial, selective attention, and magical thinking. The constant drip of escalating and sustained heightening oil prices is conventionally dismissed as irrelevant background noise.

The inflationary flash flood of energy costs will now cascade through our economy as the consequences of tariff burdens are hitting Main Street. Ninety five percent of the American electorate is invisible to Trump so these economic hardships have little impact on his grandiose visions.

The only connected line to Trump’s political strategy for the mid-terms is to rig and steal the election. We are at the junction of kakistropic and psychopathic.

Dorothy Pullen's avatar

Ideally, the village idiot and the president of a country are two different people. In a kakistocracy, the two are the same. "When the absurd - last night's speech by the village idiot followed by the social media post "Two Kings" - and the dangerous - too many - are no longer separate categories" then it's kakistophic. Finally! A word that perfectly fits what has befallen us!

Terry Perkins's avatar

"Reality, as it turns out, runs on supply chains." Oh Yeah--Just ask the Wehrmacht how things went at Stalingrad. There goes that pesky history thing--rhyming again!