Quote of the Day

Ben Domenech, writing for The Federalist, comes the closest I've seen to explaining the Trump phenomenon. It's Obama's fault, he writes, for causing the yawning gap between the elites and the rest of us. The whole article is worthwhile, here is a key sentence.

Trump is a perfect personality to exploit these divides, offering the promise of an authoritarian who represents the people in place of an authoritarian who represented the elites.

Put that way, Trump could become America's Juan Peron - not a good thing - or a Robespierre - even worse. A more hopeful view would see Trump as a latter-day Teddy Roosevelt - a populist man of action.
I'm hopeful.