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By Peter Parisi ~

One of the bestselling books of the 1970s was “The Peter Principle,” a business management book by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull.

The book’s premise, in a nutshell, was that people get promotions based on their performance in their previous jobs until they are ultimately elevated to a position in which they’re incompetent, since skills and success in one position don’t necessarily ensure success in the next. “In a hierarchy,” Peter said, “every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre—seen here holding her daily news conference on Dec. 8—is immune from criticism of her many gaffes because she checks all of the Democrats’ “intersectional” identity politics boxes. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Put another way, as the disclaimers say in investment brokers’ ads: “Past performance is no guarantee of future results.”

Both Peter and Hull are long since…