Yep. Even exceptional expertise in one area does not necessarily translate to other areas.
Back when I was a social worker there was also an informal description for people who tested much higher in their verbal skills than their analytical skills - the cocktail party syndrome. They could appear more capable than they were globally- for a while.
That might have more to do with extreme narcissism than intelligence. With very few exceptions, politicians do what they do because they crave approval and adulation. In parallel with that comes high confidence - often too high - and plenty of Engineer’s Disease; the confidence that because they have a high degree of expertise in one area, that it translates to knowing better than everyone else in other areas.
Want to rate you local news media? Let’s see how many articles on Cotton dare to use the word “racist”.
Here’s a sample quote, to show why I think this article is worth reading:
A state bankruptcy process would thus enable a Republican Party based in the poorer states to use its federal ascendancy to impose its priorities upon the budgets of the richer states.
Unfortunately, I’ve already read my Atlantic quota for the month, apparently… 
I know! I’ll just go to B&N and read it on the… oh! D’OH!
Private/incognito windows are your friend.
I had forgotten! Thanks!
Damn…
He’s realistic enough to recognize that the pandemic probably means the end not only of the Trump presidency, but of his own majority leadership. He’s got until January to refashion the federal government in ways that will constrain his successors. That’s what the state-bankruptcy plan is all about.
McConnell gets it. Now you do, too.
Yup. Pretty sobering.
And a good reminder that what makes McConnell so dangerous is that he absolutely knows what he is doing.
You can also hit the stop button after the page text loads but before the “no page for you!” overlay loads, if you time it right. 
sounds like the kind of thing Disable Javascript might help with
Dangerous precedents:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/new-york-primary-cancellation-sanders
Down-ballot races will still be held on June 23, though it is not yet clear how extensive the in-person voting options will be. Per the New York Times, that leaves voters in only about 40 of the state’s 62 counties with elections to vote in.
but the primary system had been working so well
helping the best possible candidates naturally rise to the top /s
or, on firefox at least you can often use the “reading mode” button to get at the content under the popup. ( except for a very few places like the nytimes which use javascript to actually delete the content 
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Pretty brazen, for a party that calls themselves “democrats.” Maybe they should change their name to the Plutocratic Party.
Sanders is pissed because he was hoping to get more delegates to use for pushing his agenda at the Convention (where the party platform is also established), but obviously isn’t going to object. In the end they’re only helping voters in 22 of 62 counties, although obviously this will massively depress turnout for the down-ballot races (something I’m sure Cuomo is happy about). More to the point, they should have been working out a solution for this over the last two months, and if they haven’t, will they by November?
the situation puts us in the position of begging to hold onto something that was already bad
we need more ranked-choice-style options and less power for “political parties” in general
The system gives too many opportunities for people to shift the blame. The election board (which is officially the office that canceled the primary) can claim that they did so because the state party removed all names from the ballot except Biden’s; the Party can claim that that removal is reasonable given that all the other candidates have withdrawn, and that ultimately the cancellation was the state’s doing.
There are opportunities at the national (DNC) level to intervene. For example, they could refuse to seat any delegates from NY at the national convention. They’ve done this in the past when state parties have been capricious. Even the threat might cause a reversal.
This is by design, specifically because they know they’re going to engage in corrupt and anti-democratic tactics whenever they want to, and they need to be able to shift the blame when that happens.
