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Remember “de-Baathification”?
after Bush invaded Iraq — under lies and made-up pretexts — he fired over 50,000 federal Iraqi employees who were in the ruling Baath party
In their place, Bush put “right-wing apparatchiks, some barely out of college”, who thence destroyed Iraq because they didn’t know a damn thing about running a government. They screwed *everything* up
As Michelle Goldberg notes, it’s what Musk is doing with his twentysomethings in Washington
The New York Times · Opinion | The Familiar Arrogance of Musk’s Young Apparatchiks
@clive Is there a level below Dunning-Kruger? We may be finding out.