More notes on stupidity

We can debate about how much ordinary voters should have known about what they were subjecting the country to, complicated by the fact that the most critical swing voters in Trump’s coalition are sporadic/never vote otherwise voters who pay pretty much no attention to politics.
For corporate insiders who swung particularly hard toward Trump in 2024, however, there is no excuse whatsoever:
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[image or embed]— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) February 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Goldman Sachs, Jan 21: "Despite Trump’s comments that the 25% tariff will be implemented in 10 days, we continue to believe the odds of a 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico are low (20%)." Why have analysts been caught so flat-footed by Trump doing *exactly what he said he would*?— Paul Krugman (@pkrugman.bsky.social) February 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
To reiterate, it’s not that these people don’t understand that Trump is a con man, it’s that they think that they’re in on the con rather than being the marks. And despite this we can count on, say, the editors of the Wall Street Journal learning nothing from this. We’re on for 4 years of unnecessary suffering at home and abroad because so many people who should know better are incapable of taking Trump either seriously or literally.
cannot be said enough that for a decade a critical number of americans have simply refused to accept that he means what he says
[image or embed]— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) February 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
and i don't just mean regular people. it is beyond clear that elites throughout american society just did not believe that trump was anything other than a normal republican who said mean stuff— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) February 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM