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I think Kaus is going at this story entirely backwards. IMAO, the key to understanding this is not 'Find out who the individuals @realDonaldTrump was talking with in January and February', it's looking at how people in general think about new and strange situations.
In Heinlein's novel THE PUPPET MASTERS, the head of an intelligence agency is described thusly:
“The Old Man had cracked the case, analyzed it, and come up with the right answer in a little more than twenty-four hours. His unique gift was the ability to reason logically with
“The Old Man had cracked the case, analyzed it, and come up with the right answer in a little more than twenty-four hours. His unique gift was the ability to reason logically with
unfamiliar, hard-to-believe facts as easily as with the commonplace. Not much, eh? I have never met anyone else who could do it wholeheartedly. Most minds stall dead when faced with facts which conflict with basic beliefs; ‘I-just-can’t-believe-it’ is all one word to highbrows
