Stormtrooper Syndrome has seduced the West.
The West has a bad case of “Stormtrooper Syndrome”—utter faith and certainty that we are the Good Guys, the Good Guys always win, the Bad Guys are incompetent buffoons and we’ll just think our way out of crises like climate change at the last possible moment.
This syndrome is exacerbated by elites who never, ever suffer consequences of their actions.