Theories of Trump

One of the things I love about a certain segment of the intellectual commentary class is that, even in the midst of immediate political battles, its constituents are constantly striving to understand how and why the pieces of the world are fitting together as they are.  The mystery of Donald Trump has been fertile ground. After all, the notion of a President Trump was so absurd in 2000 that The Simpsons made it an incidental part of the joke about a future in which one of the show's

One of the things I love about a certain segment of the intellectual commentary class is that, even in the midst of immediate political battles, its constituents are constantly striving to understand how and why the pieces of the world are fitting together as they are.  The mystery of Donald Trump has been fertile ground. After all, the notion of a President Trump was so absurd in 2000 that The Simpsons made it an incidental part of the joke about a future in which one of the show's characters…