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FP: The Shallow State

February 23, 2017 by Michael Boyle

Another interesting article from Foreign Policy:

The shallow state, on the other hand, is unsettling because not only are the signs of it ever more visible but because its influence is clearly growing. It is made scarier still because it not only actively eschews experience, knowledge, relationships, insight, craft, special skills, tradition, and shared values but because it celebrates its ignorance of and disdain for those things. Donald Trump, champion and avatar of the shallow state, has won power because his supporters are threatened by what they don’t understand, and what they don’t understand is almost everything.

Source: FP: The Shallow State

Tags: Foreign Policy Magazine, Tea Party, Trump, US Politics

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