I wrote recently that with Brexit, the UK is experimenting on itself. The Trump administration is doing something similar: it’s testing the theory that the US can be run without experts. Trump’s point-man for China, Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian question is Jared Kushner, a real estate heir. Scott Pruitt, who heads the Environmental Protection Agency, has no scientific training. The administration seems to be handling North Korea almost without reference to diplomats or Korea experts. And senator Lindsey Graham, who ran the latest Republican push to dismantle Obamacare, admitted afterwards that he’d started from ignorance: “Well, I’ve been doing it for about a month. I thought everybody else knew what the hell they were talking about, but apparently not.”
我最近写过，英国正在通过脱欧(Brexit)拿自己做实验。特朗普政府也在干类似的事：他们正在验证一个理论，离了专家美国也照样玩得转。特朗普在manbetx3.0 、伊拉克及巴以问题上的侦察兵贾里德•库什纳(Jared Kushner)，是个地产集团继承人。美国国家环境保护局(EPA)局长斯科特•普鲁伊特(Scott Pruitt)，没有受过科学训练。特朗普政府在处理朝鲜问题时看上去几乎不征询外交官或朝鲜问题专家们的意见。而最近一次代表共和党为废除奥巴马医改计划(Obamacare)做出努力的参议员林赛•格雷厄姆(Lindsey Graham)后来承认,他开始做这件事时对情况一无所知：“好吧，我干了差不多一个月。我以为别人都知道他们到底在说啥，但显然不是这么回事。”