Trump’s Idiocracy is in action

One might laugh at President Comacho’s antics in Idiocracy, but there is nothing funny about Donald Trump’s zig-zag exit from the White House.
U.S. President Donald Trump, pictured delivering a coronavirus briefing in July. Mr. Trump has downplayed the threat posed by COVID-19 and opposed efforts to stem its spread. The virus has now killed nearly 300,000 Americans.
HALIFAX—Fourteen years ago, a science-fiction movie was released called Idiocracy. It was set in a dysfunctional America where survival of the fittest was reversed by reproductive habits and social collapse. Thoughtful Americans stopped having children, and the less reflective multiplied...

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