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An Informed Electorate — too Late
Donald John Trump, self-identified as “The Donald” when he can get away with it, did something highly unusual. He gave a real interview. On television.
Naturally, the lucky recipient of The Donald’s time was what we on the left have jokingly called Trump TV.
Fox.
There The Donald’s good luck ended because he drew Chris Wallace, the éminence grise of the hardy band of real reporters at Fox. This is a band so small that it was diminished in double digits when Shepard Smith left.
As an illustration of how a real reporter prepares, when the POTUS swung into the brag he has been floating on for some time that he was given a test of his mental faculties and “aced it,” and this was offered as more proof that Mr. Trump is “a very stable genius,” Mr. Wallace had dug into the content of the test and had taken the test himself.
For Chris Wallace, it was a professional doing what professionals do. For me, it was sheer luck, but I, too, have taken that same test myself within the last week. My wife has observed — correctly — that I am not as quick as I used to be. Worse, from my point of view, is that I forget things that I should not forget and sometimes I have to be rescued by Professor Google.
