Even as Donald Trump’s moral and leadership failings are rapidly being joined by cognitive ones, the frightening decline of that entire repellent package—when further decline didn’t seem possible—is working wonders for him in the Attention-Whore Index: he won again, with 31.5 percent of your vote. J. D. Vance’s aggressive dissemination of Neanderthal views got him second place (24.1 percent). Over in Montecito-lot, chronic vexing issues ranging from the existential (whither Harry at 40?) to trademark matters (whither American Riviera Orchard?) landed the Sussexes in third (19 percent). And the specter of Trump’s good friend “Leon” Musk, as he has mistakenly called him, basically running the government earned the creepy entrepreneur fourth place (13.4 percent).
The nominees in this week’s edition of the Attention-Whore Index Poll are …
