fol·ly ˈfälē/ noun
1. lack of good sense; foolishness. "an act of sheer folly"
2.a costly ornamental building with no practical purpose, especially a tower or mock-Gothic ruin built in a large garden or park.
Every so often I read something that seems so spot on — I feel compelled to share it here. In today’s NY Times the OpEd by Ross Douthat is another of these ‘must reads’ —
Douthat’s opening paragraph nicely states the folly of Trump’s war on Jeff Sessions.
Donald Trump’s campaign against his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, in which he is seemingly attempting to insult and humiliate and tweet-shame Sessions into resignation, is an insanely stupid exercise. It is a multitiered tower of political idiocy, a sublime monument to the moronic, a gaudy, gleaming, Ozymandian folly that leaves many of the president’s prior efforts in its shade. www.nytimes.com/...
From there, Douthat goes step by step to clearly dissect the multiple levels in which the pResident’s misguided tirade against Jeff Sessions is a foolhardy mistake, sure to undermine his own best interests and cost him the support of his dwindling crew of loyal supporters. The piece is well worth reading.
Trump hasn’t had a stroke or suffered a neurological disaster, and his behavior in the White House is no different from the behavior he manifested consistently while winning enough votes to take the presidency.
But he is nonetheless clearly impaired, gravely deficient somewhere at the intersection of reason and judgment and conscience and self-control. Pointing this out is wearying and repetitive, but still it must be pointed out.
Douthat concludes by stating the obvious —
This president should not be the president, and the sooner he is not, the better.
Well said Ross Douthat.