Some semi-related observations:

• First, a simple challenge for any registered voters out there: Read the nearly 50 (!!) messages that President Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social site beginning in the evening of Saturday, May 30, and continuing into the wee hours of the next morning. Read them with as close to an objective attitude toward things Trump as possible. Pretend even that the messages were posted by someone other than him.

After having done so, what do you think? More to the point, having read all that, do you believe that the fellow who posted it is of sound mind? And that he should hold a position with responsibility of any kind? Bank president? Member of a city council? How about president of the United States, with control over the nuclear codes?

The questions are not asked out of partisanship but hopefully a basic patriotism that contains within it some reasonable expectations of presidential behavior. We can all agree that a crazy president is a great danger to the country, and it is hard to read those posts without thinking we have one, isn't it?

There is a certain constitutional amendment that was intended, in a fashion, to deal with situations like this, but we have arrived at the ironic circumstance that those who would be responsible for invoking it are too terrified by his craziness to do........

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