I think you are a bit tough on Madison and Wilson, but part of what moves me was not in your analysis. For the American voter, who was the other candidate on the ballot who would have been better?

The thing with which I really disagree is the conclusion that resumes do not matter. Lack of a resume was critical in the election of the person who, small hands down, is the worst of the worst, Donald John Trump.

Trump was not qualified by education. He did not go to any graduate school and, by all accounts, he spent his undergraduate years as a party animal. He does not read — not even the briefing books before a major meeting. This is a bad thing because he needs to be briefed. He has no knowledge of history.

He is also innocent of economics and political science — not the cutting edge, but the fundamentals.

He has no command of the literature in his native language. You will not hear him refer to Shakespeare or The Bible, with the exception of “Two Corinthians.” (Go on — I dare you to ask him what a Corinthian is.)

Trump was not qualified by experience. He never served in government at any level and his only success in business was branding himself.

As POTUS, he has shaken old friendships, embraced our enemies while getting nothing in return, and destroyed the political norms that have in the past allowed us to agree to disagree most of the time.

While I was not personally fond of his opponent and my nose still hurt from voting for her husband, her resume was as full as his was empty.

This awful pass where we find ourselves now was avoidable by simply comparing resumes.