Profiles in Ignorance
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Andy Borowitz, "one of the funniest people in America" (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly "chronicles our embrace of anti-intellectualism" (Walter Isaacson) in American politics, from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle, from George W. Bush to Sarah Palin, to…
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As expected from this author, this book is very funny in parts, but it’s also alarming as commentary on decline in our political leadership.
Borowitz chronicles the emergence of ignorance and stupidity as political credentials rather than disqualifiers, starting with Reagan, flowering with Dan Quayle and GWBush and Sarah Palin, and surpassing absurdity with the multiply-impeached and indicted former president and his imitators and sycophants.
Borowitz makes the point that public ignorance is no longer the embarrassment that it once was, but the opposite, becoming a criterion for electability that shows commonality with an electorate for whom knowing what you…
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