HOW SMART ARE WE?

We’re supposed to be the smart educated ones so why has Trump outmsmarted us at every turn?

He won the primary. He won the election if not the vote (yes he did).

And now he disappears his huge scandals behind a smoke screen of intentionally inflammatory tweets and by falsely Trumpeting he forced Ford and GM to create American jobs.

Applause, applause from his supporters.

We call him a this and that without ever twigging his people LOVE his this and that.

He and his Goering-Gobbels shadow Steve Bannon, cleverly figured out the future war while we’re like generals fighting the last war.

So we protest – “no justice no peace” yada yada – the last war’s slogans while we wait for Trump to self-destruct or for the scandals to pile up into a new Watergate.

The best thing that’s happening in Washington – and across the country – is the Women’s March. Pray God they don’t exclude anti-abortion feminists and can whittle down their protest from the usual indigestible menu to a single focus. Copy the massed ranks of Suffragettes who harassed the 1913 inauguration of Woodrow Wilson who, like the aspiring rapist Trump, loudly despised brainy women.

Now let’s imagine we trudge home after the protest marches. What then?

We can keep calling Trump names, which is good for morale and which he feeds on.

How about fighting our future war? That is, hammer away, hammer away, and keep hammering away – yes, like Bernie and Warren - on stuff that matters like counterattacking on Obamacare and crooked Cabinet nominees, jobs yes and more jobs, funding Planned Parenthood, prison and bail reform – again and again and again.

It’s a question not a statement. Who, actually, is for this dull and indispensable work?