re: #297 Hecuba’s daughter

Brian Stelter interviewed Cliff Sims, author of Team of Vipers, on Reliable Sources this morning. His picture of Trump certainly comports with mine — he’s cunning and not stupid or demented.

My view: We underestimate him at our peril. He is vicious and unprincipled, a John Gotti on the national stage; with Putin’s advice, he would be capable of any crime.

I agree, “stupid” is the wrong word. Trump is incredibly ignorant about many things, but he has a master con man’s low cunning and instinct for exploiting weaknesses, and that’s gotten him pretty far.