Former Trump advisor drops a bomb on the president's endgame

Systemic Error Podcast · Sep 25, 2026 · 7m

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“Mistakes Were Made” Is How Power Escapes Judgment

The Alibi of Good Intentions

An AlterNet interview with Anthony Scaramucci presents his book All the Wrong Moves as an explanation for Donald Trump’s rise: trade policy, unpaid wars, financial bailouts, housing policy, and weak Democratic candidates alienated working-class voters and created an opening for right-wing populism. That systemic account has value. Its central weakness is the insistence that these were largely bipartisan mistakes made by well-meaning people.

“Mistakes were made” is not analysis. It is an alibi…