Never Trumpers Never Learn
null By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.Dec. 8, 2023 6:04 pm ETDonald Trump appears to watch the latest witness in his civil fraud case at the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan, Dec. 7. Photo: Starmax/Zuma PressWhataboutism is the most piercingly stupid term in American politics, cited by partisans whenever someone notices how much their behavior resembles their opponents’. It also falsifies the most basic reality of organic existence: Successful behaviors will be modeled and replicated. And the Russia collusion hoax was the most astonishingly successful political innovation of our age—an “availability cascade,” using the term coined by Timur Kuran and Cass Sunstein in a seminal 1999 law review article.Here we can take a deep breath. The same establishment also gave us a detailed, forensic exposure of the hoax thanks to a Justice Department inspector general and special counsel.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8About this art
Dec. 8, 2023 6:04 pm ET
Whataboutism is the most piercingly stupid term in American politics, cited by partisans whenever someone notices how much their behavior resembles their opponents’. It also falsifies the most basic reality of organic existence: Successful behaviors will be modeled and replicated. And the Russia collusion hoax was the most astonishingly successful political innovation of our age—an “availability cascade,” using the term coined by Timur Kuran and Cass Sunstein in a seminal 1999 law review article.
Here we can take a deep breath. The same establishment also gave us a detailed, forensic exposure of the hoax thanks to a Justice Department inspector general and special counsel.
Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
About this article
Holman W. Jenkins Jr. is a member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal. He writes the twice-weekly “Business World” column that appears on the paper's op-ed page on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Mr. Jenkins joined the Journal in May 1992 as a writer for the editorial page in New York. In February 1994, he moved to Hong Kong as editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal's editorial page. He returned to the domestic Journal in December 1995 as a member of the paper's editorial board and was based in San Francisco. Mr. Jenkins won a 1997 Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial coverage.
Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Jenkins received a bachelor's degree from Hobart and William Smith Colleges and a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. He was a 1991 journalism fellow at the University of Michigan.
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