IN ALL THE TIME I'VE KNOWN YOU I STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN

IN ALL THE TIME I’VE KNOWN YOU I STILL DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN:  If, as Karl Marx famously suggested, history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce, we’ll die laughing at the next Donald Trump. 

Let’s say, hypothetically, that everyone around you – your colleagues, your friends, even your family – thinks you’re an idiot.  Is there a more effective way to prove them right than issuing a tweet in which you insist that you’re “a very stable genius”?  

I can’t think of one.  Even coming right out and admitting that you’re not the sharpest tool in the shed would be smarter. 

A number of commentators have compared that tweet to what Fredo Corleone said to Michael Corleone in GODFATHER II: “I can handle things. I’m smart! Not like everybody says, like dumb. I’m smart and I want respect!”

As David Frum (link below) points out, the Corleone family was smart enough to keep Fredo on the sidelines, away from a leadership position.  American voters?  Not so much.

I can’t come up with a better conclusion that Frum’s so I’ll close by quoting him:

“Who and what Donald Trump is has been known to everyone and anyone who cared to know for years and decades. Before he was president, he was the country’s leading racist conspiracy theorist. Before he was the country’s leading racist conspiracy theorist, he was a celebrity gameshow host. Before he was a celebrity gameshow host, he was the multi-bankrupt least trusted name in real estate. Before he was the multi-bankrupt least trusted name in real estate, he was the protege of Roy Cohn’s repeatedly accused of ties to organized crime. From the start, Donald Trump was a man of many secrets, but no mysteries. Inscribed indelibly on the public record were the reasons for responsible people to do everything in their power to bar him from the presidency.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/donald-trump-goes-full-fredo/549875/