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"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people" nghĩa là gì?
21 Dec, 2020
"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people" = chưa ai từng phá sản vì đánh giá thấp trí thông minh của người Mỹ -> nghĩa là người bị lừa mà không biết hoặc tự vấn, vì thế mất tiền cho người khác.
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Apart from these serious flaws (lỗi) in intellect (trí tuệ), judgment and character (to put it politely), Trump’s entire personal and political identity was summed up but also contradicted by the circus master P.T. Barnum’s oft-quoted observation that “no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.” It is contradicted in two ways: Trump repeatedly went broke, and is likely to do so again. Second, in the end, his underestimate of the American people’s intelligence (especially the women and people of color he repeatedly disparaged (chê bai)) led a majority of these and other voters to defeat him soundly at the polls.
There is an art to molding and inspiring the disenfranchised (tước quyền) and ignorant. In this art Donald Trump is a maestro. The dispossessed souls in MAGA hats whom we see as backdrops at Trump’s super-spreader arena speeches represent the last few remnants of that once vast white majority which inspired H.L. Mencken in the 1920s to suggest that no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.
Once again proving the adage, often attributed to H.L. Mencken, that no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people, Sacha Baron Cohen resurfaced on Saturday June 27, spending his Shabbos at a “March for our Rights” rally in Olympia, Wash.
Others have noted as much. A few days ago, the Washington Post invoked (cầu khẩn) Mencken in an editorial expressing alarm about the popular support for Donald Trump with the Baltimore Sage's observation that "no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people."
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