My position is evolving every day at this point. And believe it or not, I'm not trying to "win" I'm trying to dissuade some of the blinkered terror that comes up whenever a learned scholar invokes Hitler, because invoking Hitler does not improve discourse.

Hate and xenophobia, sure. But what kind of hate? Xenophobia why? And "main" is a tough allegation to make because most Trump voters don't know any Muslims, let alone Syrian refugees.

I worry that there's a tendency on the Left to say "they hate our Freedoms" and move on as if they've somehow parsed the main argument and don't have to think about it anymore. I mean, I have a high suspicion that I wouldn't like to see the voting results of Lawrenceburg, KY, yet I enjoy Wild Turkey rather a lot. There has to be a reason normal humans would vote Trump because I can't accept that half the country is rabid psychopaths.

I said it earlier today and I'll say it again: a disinterested executive isn't the end of the world for the executive branch. Bush II was disinterested. Reagan was demonstrably senile for the last two-three years. But Trump has never existed in the structure he's about to exist in and while I have no doubts that the machinery surrounding him has every intent to Make America Gasp Again, they're going to have to do it at the behest of a man who takes selfies with taco salads.

I dunno. Everybody on the Left is seeing Triumph of the Will. I think it'll be a little too Weekend at Bernie's to get that grim that quick.