Trump’s Great Failing Could Be Basic Arithmetic

I cringe when I hear someone say that Trump is an idiot.

Yes, we hear the former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson say, “He’s a “f***ing moron,” and any of the dozens of similar epithets thrown at him by the people most closely connected to him, but it seems clear that the former president’s major mental defect is not stupidity, but the inability to see what’s good for him for more than an hour or two into the future.

And here we have the latest scandal: entertaining people at Mar-a-Lago whose views are directly antithetical to the vast majority of Americans.

About dining with “Ye” and Nick Fuentes, he must have had a thought: “these people are celebrities, and they like me, and I desperately want to surround myself with folks like this.”  Of course they like you, and of course they make you feel good, but these peoples’ values are repulsive to most of the U.S. electorate, and thus, this tactic is a solid loser.

An even stronger case could be made about Trump’s call to abandon the Constitution.  Even the imbeciles who form his base understand that “free speech” and “the right to bear arms” lie at the very core of the United States.

Perhaps what I’m saying is that where he falls down is in math.  His narcissism cuts him off from the concept that he is despised by a huge majority of U.S. voters, a group that’s growing larger by the hour.

And the stakes couldn’t be higher.  We’re not talking about failing to get the 2024  GOP nomination; we’re talking about dying in federal prison.