None are so blind...

If I sometimes sound a note of exasperation that people can't see how obviously unfit Donald Trump is for the office he holds and the danger he poses to us all... well, I don't see how anybody who is paying attention can miss it. In fact, I'll go so far as to say that I'm not sure that I could summon the amount of willful self-deception that would be necessary for me to miss it.

I'm neither bragging about that nor trying to indict anybody else. It's just the truth.

I'm not going to even try to summarize this beyond saying that anybody who doesn't believe me about the guy ought to believe the man's original Secretaries of State and Defense, and ponder what happened when they tried to help the man.

Just read it and weep. No.

Just read it and let it sink in.

ADDENDUM: No.

No, I've changed my mind. I will summarize the section from A Very Stable Genius, a new book about our child president by people who interviewed those in the room during the incident in question, if only to help me process it myself.

It's about how former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and former Defense Secretary Gen. James Mattis, alarmed by Donald Trump's ignorance of basic American history and the basics of geopolitics, tried to give him a power-point presentation on the subject in the presence of some of our most distinguished military leaders and were humiliated for it by a president determined to maintain his ignorance.

It's a story of how Mr. Trump refused to listen, spouting ill-informed nonsense and throwing a tantrum that ended in the President of the United States calling the two most senior members of his Cabinet and the assembled leadership of our nation's military "losers and babies" and storming out of the room.

It's about how Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was the only man in the room who could summon the courage to speak up for these distinguished men who had risked their lives over and over to defend our freedom and who were now being insulted and humiliated by a man who not only had not but had absolutely no idea what he was talking about. It's about how, when the president had stormed out, Sec. Tillerson blurted out that he was "a f***ing idiot," and who lost his job soon after that all-too-accurate comment leaked to the press

It's about how "Mad Dog" Mattis, a Marine to the very core of his being, could not be moved even by personal insult and humiliation by this lesser man to be insubordinate but retained his dignity and his silence, resigning only when it became clear that his Commander-in-Chief was not merely hopelessly ignorant and unwilling to be advised by those who were better informed but hell-bent on a course that could not help but damage the nation's interests.

It's about how, having resigned, Gen. Mattis had the dignity to refuse the ceremony normally extended to a retiring Defense Secretary, sick at heart when contemplating the clownish hands in which the nation's destiny rested.

The "grown-ups" have one by one, been driven from this administration, and despite the efforts of those who have remained to protect America from their boss's impulsive ignorance and their boss from himself, are growing fewer and fewer in number and less and less able to do so.

It's about how a combination of ignorance on the part of some and an overwhelming, all-consuming desire by others to "stick it to the libs" has brought the nation into great danger, maintaining a man in power whom Russian state television- admittedly in jest, but openly and with a full understanding of what it was saying- recently labeled by name as a Russian asset.