Even I, a fairly cynical person, am surprised at the shamelessness with which business executives and news editors alike are groveling before Trump.
I realize bribery is age-old and leaders always have to negotiate with power, but this is something else. These are people who think they’re tough, think they’re special, think they’re a breed above the ordinary.
I would have assumed that their own •egos• would have prevented them from engaging in such naked, self-debasing, pathetic displays of submission. But no.