Will we ever see a moron in the White House?
After every recent presidential election, this quote does the rounds on the Net:
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
H. L. Mencken (1920)
But is this quote real? It seems too smart to be true. But it is true – as explained here.
Not surprisingly, the Mencken quote has had fresh currency with the recent election of Donald Trump. Of course, Trump is many things – but is he a moron?
The Wikipedia page on Trump states:
“Trump attended Fordham University in the Bronx for two years, beginning in August 1964. He then transferred to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, which offered one of the few real estate studies departments in United States academia at the time. While there, he worked at the family’s company, Elizabeth Trump & Son, named for his paternal grandmother. Trump graduated from Wharton in May 1968 with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics.”
Now the gardener Chance in the 1979 film “Being There” was a moron – but that was fiction. right? Maybe it would be safer to have a moron in the White House …