The editor’s Point of Order column (Snatch comfort from the jaws of victory, November 14) needs a couple of points of order of its own. It is a little presumptuous. Trump hasn’t even picked his team yet, and he’s going to run his country as badly as our dingbats are running ours? Especially our commander-in-chief. And Trump is not a populist politician. He’s not even a politician. He is populist. He is that because he saw what his countrypersons wanted. They are sick and tired of career politicians. Aren’t we all? Sadly, it does seem to me that US countrypersons prefer a popular person, even a populist one, more than a clearly capable one. Indeed, if one thinks back several decades it is nearly always the most popular one that wins. By hey, that’s democracy for you. Benign autocracy and paternal democracy have all been rejected by most of the world and we go strictly for the one man, one vote vanilla version. I can live with that. Ronald Reagan was a popular politician. And he was a...
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