But Trump’s statements don’t
necessarily come from anywhere, lead anywhere or have a permanent reality
beyond his wish to be liked at any given instant.
We’ve got this perverse situation in
which the vast analytic powers of the entire world are being spent trying to
understand a guy whose thoughts are often just six fireflies beeping randomly
in a jar.
“We badly want to understand Trump,
to grasp him,” David Roberts writes in Vox. “It might give us some sense of
control, or at least an ability to predict what he will do next. But what if
there’s nothing to understand? What if there is no there there?”
And out of that void comes a
carelessness that quite possibly betrayed an intelligence source, and
endangered a country.
