WAPO - KAKISTOCRACY, a 374-year-old word that means government by the worst,

[Wwcd]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2018/04/13/kakistocracy-a-374-year-old-word-that-means-government-by-the-worst-just-broke-the-dictionary/?utm_term=.d6c91b2812e6


Kakistocracy, a 374-year-old word that means ‘government by the worst,’ just broke the dictionary

Today was a productive vocabulary day in the United States of America.

The learning began in the morning, when former CIA director John O. Brennan tweeted at President Trump: “Your kakistocracy is collapsing after its lamentable journey.”

The insult was part of a raging feud between Trump and various members of the intelligence community, some of whom suspect the president’s inner circle of committing federal crimes, and many of whom Trump says are out to destroy him.

Brennan’s tweet proved quite popular with Trump’s critics, even if not everyone totally understood it.

What, wondered the actor/director Zach Braff and the fake congressman Steven Smith, and many others, was a “kakistocracy”?

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[Me.]

1. Isn't That The Truth

and look he has our SOS by his side

[Wwcd]

2. Yup. His real SOS. Wonder who she'll appt as her next SOS stooge

Scooter's now availible, I hear.

[Me.]

3. WEll, You Know

Jared is there by her side

[dalton99a]

4. Sounds very shitty.

[RandomAccess]

5. Laurence Tribe was the first modern use of it I saw --

some months ago. I've used it here a bunch of times.

I prefer the Wikipedia definition:

A kakistocracy (/ˌkækɪsˈtɒkrəsi, -ˈstɒk-/) is a system of government which is run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. The word was coined as early as the 17th century.