“As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and a complete narcissistic moron.”
––H.L. Mencken, writing in The Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920. [Written 100 years ago—take that, Nostradamus!]
“If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.”
—Donald Trump, explaining how to address the spike in coronavirus cases, Monday, June 15. [Officer, if I wasn’t looking at my speedometer, I couldn’t have been speeding….If we remove video capabilities from cell phones, police brutality will cease to exist….If Trump can gain control over the news media, there will be no “fake news.” And H.L. Mencken was “a third-rate reporter, a total loser.”]
Louisiana Voice 
Well….it took 100 years, but here we are…Thank Goodness we have a remedy….vote the bums out!
Mencken had brilliant, if cynical, observations and I am a big fan. A few more apropos of today:
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.
I am suspicious of all the things that the average people believe.
Mencken = prophet Trump = bleeping moron