Trump Isn’t Just a Former President. He’s Also a Dumb Schmuck.

I’ve been listening to ‘Is Trump a Fascist?’ argument for the past couple of years and contributing my own comments to the debate as well.

But I got something to tell you about that question, okay?

Which is that maybe Trump’s a Fascist and maybe he’s not a Fascist, but I’ll tell you what he really is — he’s a dumb schmuck.

Yea, yea, I know that dumb schmucks don’t run campaigns that get them elected to President of the United States, except that Trump didn’t run a Presidential campaign in 2016.

In 2016, Trump simply did what Rush Limbaugh did when he went around the country in the early 1980’s and built a national radio network by holding big, outdoor country-western jamborees in conservative places and signing up local advertisers for his radio show.

And Rush made a point of telling his audiences that they were the ‘true’ Americans, that they were being ignored by the moguls in Hollywood and the fat cats in D.C., but that he, rush Limbaugh — would never let these ‘real’ Americans forget that they were the people who made America ‘great.’

Sound familiar? It should. This is exactly how Trump went around and built his MAGA network in 2016. And when I listened to a Trump harangue during the 2016 campaign, if I…