Jamesian Philosophy Refreshed

I wrote here recently about Omarosa. The tone of my comment was dismissive. You probably didn't believe, reading this, that I would return to the subject so soon. And I don't want to. But all the fuss about her -- her book, her tapes, her media tour -- even in the few days since I last wrote about her here, has exposed some important facts about the shaky coalition that now runs the country. Jonah Goldberg, portrayed here, writing for the old-line conservative journal National Review , catalogs the different worlds whence come this President’s appointees. His examples come both from those still at work within this administration and from those who have departed. Some of them are from the world of business or the military, like Wilbur Ross from the former or Jim Mattis from the latter ; others come from the Bannonite “counter-establishment,” (Bannon himself, and Gorka); others from the GOP hierarchy (Priebus, Spicer); others are movement conservatives, like Sessi...

She keeps coming back into our lives like the cat in a certain campfire song who wouldn't stay away though "they thought he was a goner." She, of course, is Omarosa Newman, who first appeared on pop culture's radar during the very first season of The Apprentice.  That was fourteen years ago. She was fired in week nine, which means she finished in 8th place, but she made a memorable impression (the love-to-hate sort of impression) for avoiding elimination as long as she did through back-stabbing At any rate, in later seasons Trump kept having her back. In July 2016, the Trump campaign named her its Director of African-American Outreach. Apparently because she was black and sort-of famous. It isn't clear whether she had a regular work day during the campaign or what she did during such a day. Maybe her new memoir sheds some light on this. She got a similarly vague communications job in the new administration, leaving in December 2017. The manner of that le...