The ‘adults in the room’ won’t save you
The hope that wise subordinates would curb the likes of Donald Trump was always a misunderstanding of politics.
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (right) and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent are considered “adults” in the Donald Trump administration but have been unable to rein in the President, says the writer.
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Janan Ganesh
Zhou Enlai died half a century ago this year. His legacy? As he might have said, too soon to tell.
One view is that Mao Zedong’s suave premier curbed and contained the Great Helmsman. Sceptical historians look at the Cultural Revolution, among other excesses, and mutter, “Some curb.”