Stephen Miller's "Iron Law"

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8. Famous last words--this reminds me of the ill-considered remarks...

...by an unnamed member of the George W Bush administration many years ago (it was rumored to be Karl Rove). The quote was reported by Ron Suskind in the NYT (10/17/2004). In the end, they hanged themselves with this statement; it might as well be the epitaph for the Bush regime.

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Reality-based_community