Will: Quarantine Trump

[GMDino]

(05-05-2017, 12:42 AM)Dill Wrote: Pulitzer Prize winning conservative journalist George Will placed the following commentary in Today's Washington Post.

The gist of it is that Trump not only lacks the basic knowledge of history and government needed to be an effective president, but he also cannot think and speak sequentially. He does not know what he does not know. He does not know what it is to know.
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George F. Will: President Trump doesn't know what it is to know (Commentary)
http://amp.syracuse.com/v1/articles/20605487/george_f_will_president_trump_doesnt_know_what_it_is_to_know_commentary.amp

WASHINGTON -- It is urgent for Americans to think and speak clearly about Donald Trump's inability to do either. This seems to be not a mere disinclination but a disability. It is not merely the result of intellectual sloth but of an untrained mind bereft of information and married to stratospheric self-confidence. . . .

What is most alarming (and mortifying to the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated) is not that Trump has entered his eighth decade unscathed by even elementary knowledge about the nation's history. As this column has said before, the problem isn't that he does not know this or that, or that he does not know that he does not know this or that. Rather, the dangerous thing is that he does not know what it is to know something. . . .

As president-elect, Trump did not know the pedigree and importance of the "one China" policy. About such things he can be, if he is willing to be, tutored. It is, however, too late to rectify this defect: He lacks what T.S. Eliot called a sense "not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence." His fathomless lack of interest in America's path to the present and his limitless gullibility leave him susceptible to being blown about by gusts of factoids that cling like lint to a disorderly mind.

Americans have placed vast military power at the discretion of this mind, a presidential discretion that is largely immune to restraint by the Madisonian system of institutional checks and balances. So, it is up to the public to quarantine this presidency by insistently communicating to its elected representatives a steady, rational fear of this man whose combination of impulsivity and credulity render him uniquely unfit to take the nation into a military conflict. 
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I generally agree with Will here. But I am pretty sure there are many Americans who either don't see the "disorderly mind" Will refers to, or don't see or care what might be the consequences of a Commander-in-Chief with a disorderly mind, or they prefer a disorderly mind to an orderly.

Any sane person knew that Trump was ill-educated and unwilling to admit he didn't know something.  He readily admitted that he didn't care if Clinton was more prepared for questions or debates.  He likes applause and getting some love he didn't get as a kid.

But he was a slick salesman and there were enough people who only read headlines and don't like the country not being white/christian 1950 who bought it and voted.