Short Shelf-Life for Senator Ben Sasse's "Open Letter" to Nebraskans on February 4th
Time moves fast in our modern news cycle. It moves even faster in Trump Time, as we lurch from Tweet to Tweet. President Trump is not intelligent: he knows next-to-nothing about American history, he regularly makes a cartoonish mess of scientific fact, but he is clever. He is clever in the way someone trying to sell you junk products is clever, or clever in the way an old-time carnival barker is clever. He is constantly diverting attention, constantly changing the subject, constantly forcing the on-lookers to consider a new claim. This constant barrage of new wild claims leaves the aghast subject of the spectacle little quality time to contemplate what is actually going on. Sometimes, even intelligent people get caught up in the circus. If we are charitable to Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse, let's say that is what happened. The otherwise highly intelligent Senator got caught up in the...