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1/ Some things needed to be said in 2016.

Only Trump would say them.

He could say them because he didn& #39;t seem to have the usual filters.

But whatever this wonderful glitch is -- autism? ADHD? narcissism? -- it has made him an exhausting president.
2/ This is the dilemma for those of us who aren& #39;t Trump voters but who also don& #39;t suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome.

The atrocious way he& #39;s been treated by the media and elites (on Russia and a lot more) has unsurprisingly made him a sympathetic figure to a lot of us.
3/ But while I don& #39;t suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome (a real thing by the way), I do suffer from Trump Fatigue Syndrome.

Why does he tweet the inane things he does? Why does he have to be so immature, blustery, inconsistent, and insecure?

Why can& #39;t he be more “normal”?
4/ But here& #39;s the thing: A “normal” person wouldn& #39;t have made the centerpiece of his administration the heroic and necessary gesture of building a wall on the Mexican border because a “normal” person would have known the massive triggering effect this would have on the elites.
5/ A “normal” person would have known that in triggering the establishment -- that myriad of institutions (e.g., academia, media, our large corporations) dominated by globalists and multiculturalists -- he would not have had much of a chance of getting anything done.
6/ But Trump isn& #39;t a normal person, or maybe he simply didn& #39;t give a damn.

And this is the kind of thing that has made him simultaneously thrilling and infuriating.
7/ At no time was I prouder of him than when he called Haiti a “s***hole country.”

Why?

Because Haiti demonstrably is a s***hole country, by almost any measure. It& #39;s the worst country in the hemisphere.

Everyone knows this.

But you& #39;re not supposed to say it.
8/ Oh, you might if it was a white country, of course. But we all know the rules, and we all meekly play along with them: You never talk this way about a non-white country.

But Trump did. He said something true that no other elected official would have dreamed of saying.
9/ There& #39;s something in Trump& #39;s wiring -- some glitch, some malfunction, or maybe divine spark -- that makes him oblivious to these kinds of rules, and to how a president is supposed to behave.
10/ So the Trump problem is this: We finally have a guy who doesn& #39;t hesitate to unapologetically go to some of those places where we desperately need to go as a country (like stopping illegal immigration and political correctness), but...
11/ ... the same set of psychological traits that makes him fearless and unique in this regard probably also produces the mercurial and unconventional and truth-bending behavior that can be so exhausting and infuriating.
12/ Maybe Trump& #39;s legacy will be that in forging his path he& #39;s made it easier for other people to run for national office who have some of his same good (and politically incorrect) instincts but none of his fatiguing quirks.
13/ This alone would make Trump& #39;s presidency very much worth the endurance test it& #39;s been so far for a lot of us centrists.
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