KJP is historic. She walks in history every day.
Or so she says.
Her unwarranted and unearned elevation of her own importance in the history books just cemented the idea that this administration, from the President on down, is the best example of a centralized Dunning Kruger Effect I have ever seen.
They actually believe they are doing well and that they are the best and the brightest. I think Biden, in his rare moments of lucidity, really believes he is doing the best job as president ever and his policies are actually working. They BELIEVE to their core that any information different than their official version is misinformation and disinformation, because it simply isn't possible for them to be wrong.
I think we all have seen individuals like this - people who honestly believe they are the smartest person in the room and have a ready bank of excuses and alibis to prove they are right, but rarely do you see so many of them in the same organization. Our government is now filled with them.
They are all incompetents who honestly and sincerely believe they are geniuses.
Their failures simply don't exist because it is impossible for them to be wrong - all naked emperors of their own little fiefdoms bolstered by a media that compliments them on their wardrobes every waking minute. I have noticed an interesting rhetorical tool employed by the cheering masses, they avoid talking about the failures by demonizing the people who object.
From “insurrectionists” to election deniers, to anti-vaxxers, to MAGA extremists, evil intent is assigned to people who disagree. And when there are no crimes, they are invented - or simple situations are hyperbolized to justify the responses. The intent is to push the goalposts so far out that when "conspiracy theory" turns into fact, it is too late to do anything about it.
The recent kerfuffle over Joe Rogan offering a hundred grand for Dr. Peter Hotez, Biden administration covid policy supplicant, and RFK, Jr. to debate is a good illustration. Hotez refuses to debate because he says the debate is over. Science doesn't debate because it is science - but the scientific method is the ultimate debate. Even when things are "settled", the challenges go on because each challenge won makes the science even more solid - and in the process, we learn things that we took as scientific fact, were just really close theories.
The reaction has not been to defend Hotez's position, it has been to vilify Rogan and RFKII - and anyone else who wants to witness the debate. If you won't debate, it is a good indication that you aren't really that sure about how solid your position is.
In my experience, when people refuse to defend the ground upon which they stand, that is an indication they know there are cracks in their logic and they hope to bully you into submission so you won't challenge them.
Dunning Kruger implies a logical fallacy called the appeal to authority - that because the "experts" have diplomas and professional certificates out the wazoo, they are not to be questioned and their word is final.
I don't think Hotez is an incompetent, but he has been anointed as an "expert" - and experts are not infallible, and are often wrong.
Soviet agriculture "expert", Trofim Lysenko lied about crop production.
In the late 60's, Paul Ehrlich predicted overpopulation would destroy the earth.
In January 1970, Life magazine reported, “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”
In 1970, Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, stated that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.
Experts.
Dunning Kruger comes for everyone, the Biden administration is certainly no exception.