FUNNY, THE DUMBEST PRESIDENT USED TO BE W; BEFORE THAT IT WAS GEORGE H.W. BUSH, BEFORE THAT IT WAS REAGAN, BEFORE THAT IT WAS FORD . . . Donald Trump: Our Dumbest President. What could all these different dumb presidents have in common?

From the comments: “Your strong views are based on your own life. You are a focus group of one. You have apparently performed no research or have any scholarly depth behind your views. There is no rigor in this piece. It is writing for the clapping seals lined up just waiting for the Trump hate fish to be dropped in their mouths. It’s shallow and unseemly for an academic audience. Trump may or may not be dumb but certainly he won an election against all the combined wisdom of many on the right and everyone on the left. Perhaps he is just less dumb than all of those people. Perhaps they are what you accuse Trump of being. They are the people that believe they are the smartest people in the room but cover it in smugness and superiority. Now they are shocked they lost and resort to insults like this piece. I hope academics rise above this nonsense. Academics need to do research and speak from a position of facts.”

If academics rise above this nonsense, it’ll be for the first time in my lifetime.