It is urgent for Americans to think and speak clearly about President Trump’s inability to do either. This seems to be not a mere disinclination but a disability. It is not merely the result of intellectual sloth but of an untrained mind bereft of information and married to stratospheric self-confidence.

George Will is someone I often disagree with — on democratic equality, on economics. Realistically, he is close to what I’d call a traditional American conservative with a small “c” – so, he gets to include honesty, thoughtfulness about science as virtues.

RTFA for the rest of what he has to say about the charlatan in the White House – put in place by millions of our neighbors and friends who understand none of this.