Most of us know that Donald Trump is manifestly unprepared to be president. Whether it’s nukes, NATO, abortion, immigration, China trade or where Joe Paterno coached and whether he’s still alive, he’s brashly clueless. Just self-serving, grating rhetoric.
The irony, however, is that he didn’t even do his homework on the process, one whereby parties–not primary voters–choose nominees. The process that could theoretically have enabled him to apply those legendary negotiating skills. But without any bankruptcy gambits or eminent domain subplots, he couldn’t be bothered.
No, nominating a president isn’t pure, direct democracy, something even the Founding Fathers were afraid of. Something about the tyranny of the masses and the timing of a charismatic authoritarian leader. It always seemed elitist, but maybe we shortchanged the Founders on this one.