Liz Truss’s attempt at a comeback went about as well as you’d expect

The Independent says on its own terms, Liz Truss’s visit to Washington DC could hardly have been more of a success. She’d been invited to speak to the very well known and very right-wing Heritage Foundation think tank, presumably as a little lunchtime treat for overworked staff in need of a bit of respite from their main job of trying to discredit all of the multiple criminal investigations into their hero Donald Trump.

They’re not stupid, over at the Heritage Foundation. Entirely malignant, yes, but not stupid. They’ll know that their best chance of getting Trump re-elected next year is to convince a few million wavering Americans that he’s actually not as stupid and deranged as they think he is. And given that he is very stupid, and very deranged, they know that won’t be an easy job. But what better way to do it – a stroke of actual genius! – than to lay on a speech by the only person in public life who is self-evidently even stupider and even more deranged than he is?

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/liz-truss-comeback-taxes-prime-minister-b2319297.html