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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2020-05-13

"Kushner's lack of experience and expertise has not been remedied in any way during his now three-plus years in the White House. After bungling many high-profile efforts to address various problems and often making them worse (see, Middle East, peace in), he keeps being handed more responsibilities with higher stakes. He has wasted taxpayer resources and endangered lives trying on policy roles usually reserved for the country's top experts with the sophistication of a child playing dress-up, cavalierly discarding them when he can't fit into them.

"There have been no consequences. In any normal administration, an adviser with Kushner's string of failures would be fired, but Kushner, like his father-in-law, keeps crediting himself with imaginary successes. Most recently, he declared the administration's coronavirus response 'a great success story,' a mind-boggling assertion that raises the question of what, if anything, Kushner thinks failure looks like. He has also continued to bash the actual experts, disputing their assessments and implying that they, not he, are the amateurs, and he is here to clean up their mess."

-- Elizabeth Spiers, "I worked for Jared Kushner. Of course he says his covid-19 failure is a success", The Washington Post, 2020-05-08

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posted by [personal profile] dewline at 01:59pm on 2020-05-13
What if the consequences of his bungling are his actual goal to begin with? And the goal of his father-in-law, as well?
 
posted by (anonymous) at 03:52pm on 2020-05-13
That is a really dark supposition.

What's worse, it may be actually true.

"May you live in interesting times", indeed.
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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 04:08pm on 2020-05-13
Based on his track record, I don't think he's capable of pulling it off intentionally. OTOH, lack of care whether it turns out this way, or being happy about it after the fact, make changing course unlikely.

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