Jonathan Bernstein: “In an episode of the original Star Trek series, called ‘The Ultimate Computer,’ a rival captain calls James T. Kirk ‘Captain Dunsel’ after a fancy new computer takes control of the Enterprise, making Kirk superfluous; Spock explains that ‘dunsel’ was cadet slang for ‘a part which serves no useful purpose.'”
“This was Donald Trump’s President Dunsel weekend. Not, as in the original, because he had been replaced; Trump simply seems to have given up on the job. He’s had no policy on the pandemic for about a month now. He basically has no policy on recovering from the economic calamity. And he has no policy to deal with the police violence, demonstrations and the rest of the upheaval that has gripped the nation for the past week.”
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