The curse of Liz Truss brings down the MAGA movement

Welcome to Declassified, a weekly humor column . Who or what to blame for the Republican Party’s midterms disaster? The cost-of-living crisis, the war in Iran, U.S. President Donald Trump’s preelection strategy of endlessly complimenting people on their buttocks?

The real answer may well be Liz Truss. If you concentrate very, very hard, you may remember that Truss was the actual prime minister of the actual U.K. in 2022 for about 7 seconds. But despite that short time frame, two major events happened on Truss’ watch.

First, she crashed the U.K. financial markets. That’s the opinion of just about everyone, it seems, except for a certain Elizabeth Truss, whose new book “Bank Job” claims it was the fault of, well, anyone else. She’s often blamed the “powerful economic establishment” for the abrupt end of her premiership; a run, you may recall, so short she was outlasted by a lettuce (that lettuce, incidentally, got a job as a senior economist at the World Bank).