In August 2016, Dan Leger of Canadian newspaper " The Chronicle Herald " predicted that a Trump victory in the U . S . presidential election would require renewed usage of the term " kakistocracy, " writing : " The kind of government he offers are so off the wall that words fail, or at least modern words do.
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Stephen Wolf of the progressive website Daily Kos said the Trump presidency appears to be headed toward a kakistocracy : " Trump has only been the president-elect a mere two weeks, but he has already sparked outcry over promising key appointments to white nationalists, unqualified sycophants, and those with troubling ties to Vladimir Putin's Russia . " Economist Paul Krugman wrote in " The New York Times ", " [ Trump is ] surrounding himself with people who share his contempt for everything that is best in America.
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In May 2016, academic and blogger Amro Ali argued that kakistocracy was a word that needed to be revived, as the word had long fallen out of circulation and there was a pressing case to rehabilitate it as " stupidity in governance needs to be treated as a political problem, and kakistocracy can best capture this problem . " After an analysis of the word, the author concluded that " either kakistocracy gets used and thoroughly examined or a Salon " would later credit Ali's blog post with initiating a wider conversation on the term.
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In May 2016, academic and blogger Amro Ali argued that kakistocracy was a word that needed to be revived, as the word had long fallen out of circulation and there was a pressing case to rehabilitate it as " stupidity in governance needs to be treated as a political problem, and kakistocracy can best capture this problem . " After an analysis of the word, the author concluded that " either kakistocracy gets used and thoroughly examined or a Salon " would later credit Ali's blog post with initiating a wider conversation on the term.
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In May 2016, academic and blogger Amro Ali argued that kakistocracy was a word that needed to be revived, as the word had long fallen out of circulation and there was a pressing case to rehabilitate it as " stupidity in governance needs to be treated as a political problem, and kakistocracy can best capture this problem . " After an analysis of the word, the author concluded that " either kakistocracy gets used and thoroughly examined or a Salon " would later credit Ali's blog post with initiating a wider conversation on the term.
