Opinion: Democrats should make an issue of Trump’s gobsmacking ignorance
when experts try to explain things to him. And he spends his day watching Fox News, a fount of scare-mongering about immigrants and climate change denial. Add in his aversion to anything he reads in mainstream media outlets, and you have a president who knows less about the world than the average college freshman.
I raise this not merely to deride him or to damn his enablers, who think they can manipulate an empty-headed president, or to shame his base that revels in anti-intellectualism. I raise this to ask Democrats:A willfully ignorant president, convinced of his own infallibility and willing to believe just about anything to assuage his egois unfit and dangerous.
Democrats should not be insulting Trump’s voters, obviously. Rather, they can explain that he does not care enough to know anything about their lives . He playsfor fools with his made-up economic statistics, reckless foreign policy and indifference to our men and women in the military . Don’t they deserve a president who knows things?
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