When This Blows Over

The reason I have been so
comfortable with the eccentric presidency
of Donald Trump is because he has
succeeded in ways that are important to
me, and where he can be said to have failed, it is in matters to
which I’m largely indifferent.
Trump has a far more realistic sense of the world than most
elites and experts. He was right about globalism,
nationalism, borders, regulations, China, and taxes. He is
good at fixing things and making things work and making
decisions. He is not, like Obama and his professorial ilk, an
incompetent man snakebit by a false academic sense of the world.
What Trump has not done is he has not accepted the moral duties of a
president as generally understood. Even though he has been far
tougher on the world’s tyrants than Obama was, he talks about them
as if they were great guys. He “fell in love” with Kim Jong Un,