04-22-2019, 11:41 AM
(04-20-2019, 11:39 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: The fault with Donald Trump is obviously not in his stars, as the Mueller report shows. We have no Presidency with this level of known scandal, but also no precedent for the consequence of so many and so pervasive scandals.
He got elected with the aid of electoral misconduct in which he is complicit. Close as the 2016 election was, Trump may have little legitimacy as President except for the legal presumption that electoral results are valid even if they prove wrong after the fact.
Scandal only counts if people can be scandalized. Trump has managed to make scandal into a social game by playing it in the press as theater with lines that change at every performance. 10 years from now, we may look back and be embarrassed. But, for now, hoi polloi thinks it's all fun and games.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.