Missing The Lessons Of History

After months of watching the Trump clown show, I am decidedly torn—which is to say, I am decidedly undecided—as to whether the orange-hued clown is closer to a buffoonish ignoramus in over his head, or is in fact closer to a true would-be fascist who represents something akin to an existential threat to our Madisonian system of American constitutional governance.  That I cannot tell which description is more accurate is not, of course, my problem; it is Donald Trump’s problem.