
How The American Idiot Made America A Failed State
A death toll approaching 100,000 lives. A Greater Depression on the cards. A nation βreopeningβ despite all that. Congress offering no real support or aid, gridlocked. A lunatic President telling people to inject bleach. Guess what heβs doing this weekend? Golfing. Do I really need to go on?
About a decade ago, I did something unusual. I warned that America was on the way to becoming a failed state, in the august pages of Harvard Business Review. Now, the reaction was swift and furious. Americans tend to react to things they donβt like in the only way they know …