DES MOINES—Every now and again, it’s important to remember that almost everyone who works for this administration* is an utter ghoul. For example, here’s Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, upright and awake for a change, talking about the economic upside of the unfortunate possibility of a worldwide pandemic.

"I think it will help to accelerate the return of jobs to North America.”



“Ah,” says Maria Bartiromo in reply, “that’s a good point.”

No, in fact, it’s not. It’s an astonishingly wrong-headed take that is barely human. I’ve long believed that the basic business philosophy of the American corporate class is fraud. (And Ross has his own problems there, too.) Now, I’m coming to believe that sociopathy is part of the business plan, too.

Jesus, these people...

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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