Its been interesting reading some of the blow-back Vance took for her language. Willis herself was not happy with the “c word” being used, nor the depiction of her “girl-maths” as a derogatory assessment of her abilities as a finance minister.

Setting aside the language used, the intent of the assessment rings true to someone who knew of Willis when she was at University (and knows people who knew her well). She wasn’t a deep thinker then, and got ahead on connection and socialising with the right people more than anything else as far as we could see.

Nobody I know from back then has seen anything since that would change their opinion either. It seems pretty obvious to me that she’s in a position of decision making far in excess of her ability to reason and understand what she is doing, or the long term implications of it.

But like most of her prior “work” experience she’s ballooned in on the recommendation of well connected others, and mostly because she can be relied upon to unleash the magical thinking of the Atlas aligned fundamentalists.