When This Blows Over

In this year of weariness with the elite and their definition
of success and wisdom, lots of such questions are being
asked. Where is John Podesta today — who was a master
of the universe such a short time ago? Is the Podesta name
a stamp of honesty and sobriety? Do obsequious media
still seek the latest gossip from Cheryl Mills or Robbie
Mook, the boy wonder from Columbia who was to
oversee the inevitable landslide victory? Do our demigods
in Silicon Valley ever grasp that even their cosmos is a
fragile and fickle place where yesterday’s wise are
rendered today’s fools? Is doing all the “right” things
often a guarantee of ensuring the absolutely wrong
things?
Will President Trump learn from the wise-fool President
Obama that hubris always incurs nemesis, and that there
is an all-knowing power who waits in ambush for us once
we deem ourselves gods? Is David Brooks still critiquing
the president’s crease in his pants leg, or are our
historians still wedded to the idea that Obama is a ‘god’
and the smartest man to have entered the presidency?
Ramming down Obamacare by lying about its provisions
did what exactly, and for whom? Did untruth ensure that a
simple Affordable Care Act website would work? What
was the wisdom or good of presidential guarantees of
reasonable premiums, deductibles, and choice to the
insured? Did it make Americans feel more secure in their
health care?