arrogance

If the toxic mix of arrogance and certainty could be captured on film, it would look like the faces of Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The slang phrase, “I can’t even,” with its abrupt stop implying an expression of surprise or frustration, so perfectly fits the emergence of this “issue,” it’s as if the phrase was coined specifically with fluoride in mind.

This final preelection newsletter is, appropriately, the Garbage Edition, but it could just as easily be the arrogance edition.

It’s not a new lesson, but it never stops being relevant: History has a tendency to punish great nations for their arrogance.

Hubris is the defensive arrogance designed to eclipse, disavow and compensate for any perceived “feminine” weakness.

In a toxic mix with the arrogance of power.