Tom Nichols (whose takes I no longer see because I blocked him) weeps about the loss of respect for expertise among the proles. And I agree that the proles often don’t know shit. But I understand why experts are discredited — they routinely fail in flamboyantly cartoonish ways.

Don’t ask me, for example to defer to American foreign policy ‘experts.’ Don’t ask me to respect these columnists and pundits who tell me Donald Trump needs to be allowed to run for President again.