One of President Trump’s biggest assets is the one the pundits don’t talk about much: He’s funny. Caustic, detached, lighthearted, scornful, anecdotal, boastful, he’s always been very strong on this front, with a comedian’s sense of timing, and a great sense for what people are thinking, honed well by a previous career in reality TV. He’s really, really good, even if people don’t like his politics, although leftists, hopelessly sputtering, will never admit it. As one academic noted, the funnier candidate has always won, and that certainly would be the case for Trump. The great chronicler of all things American, Tom Wolfe, certainly understood this, as Niall Ferguson observed in this good piece here: Wolfe noted that Trump's “real childish side” was part of his appeal. “He is a lovable megalomaniac”, as Wolfe put it. “The childishness makes him seem honest.”   But the weight of the...(Read Full Post)