Trump's recent successes aren't proof of superlative Napoleonic genius. They were mostly of the common sense of the kind the public intuitively understood. The reason he looks so good is his predecessors were so bad. He just had to raise his head above an abyssmal standard.
As I've written before the real revelation of the populist uprising was how mediocre the elites had become. That's why people like the Donald and Nigel Farage could take them to the cleaners. Thank God we found out what empty suits they were before a real crisis tested them.
Realizing that human institutions are made up of frail people is part of growing up; to be humble before the self-knowledge of our own defects. Only the stupid believe they can bestride the world like conquering colossi. But God knows there are no shortage of these.
