The Real Problem with Donald Trump

Michael Kinsley: “The trouble with Donald Trump is not, as Jeb Bush and others would have it, that he’s not a true conservative from any perspective. The trouble with Trump is not that his policy positions on immigration, ISIS, health care, Social Security, or whatever don’t stand up to a moment of casual scrutiny. That we’re even talking about his ‘positions’ means that we’ve already progressed to the dangerous Stage Two of the Trump phenomenon, as if his stated views are the standard by which Trump ought to be judged—a huge victory for him right there. The trouble with Trump is that he is, by temperament, by experience, and by character, utterly unqualified to be president of the United States. He is a buffoon. That’s why his campaign is a joke, not the merits or otherwise of his alleged policies.”