Pres. Tr$mp's view and understanding of science is akin to that of Pope Urban VIII, the pope who persecuted Galileo Galilei during the famous Galileo affair that culminated in Galileo's trial and condemnation by the Roman Catholic Inquisition in 1633. In such a world, to be inquisitive or to promote independent learning runs the risk of punishment.

Similar outcomes in socioeconomic policy and foreign relations are to be expected from this aggressive cabal of the ignorant, who manifestly know little of society or history and seek only raw power for their own self-interest.

One might well ask how knowing less can achieve more.

Sidenote: 1975 film Galileo starring Topol et al. is excellent.

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