What if…governing required smarts, education, and experience?

Soon Donald Frump will be President. Soon the Republican Party will control the House, the Senate, and the Presidency.

Cue the exultation and the schadenfreude.

Soon the Republican juggernaut will roll, crushing all in its path, remaking the nation to a new vision.

Wealthy businessmen, empowered as Cabinet Secretaries, will Get Things Done. The Gordian knot of regulation will be severed. In the free air of the Trump dawn, wealth will fall like dew.

Hard-faced men will roll back all foreign threats to our nation, routing clueless infidels. With girly men expelled, China will heel, Korea will kowtow, the Middle East will be still.

It was so easy!  All that victory required was right-thinking people in the right place at the right time.

Or maybe not.

What if …

…All those college lectures on the benefits of free trade, and the perils of tariffs and protection, were correct?

…there was no easy solution to healthcare, no way to achieve low cost coverage for large numbers of citizens, absent taxes to pay subsidies, and mandates to penalize failure to enroll?

…the Middle East of our era was a vexatious swamp pit of a mire of a slough of despond, with no exit and no path to victory?

…successful business people, and hard-charging executives, were peculiarly unsuited to the delicate dance in which political negotiation finds a way to the possible?

…tweeting about nuclear weapons was as disastrous a strategy as the cautious and circumspect might fear?

…cutting taxes leads to decreased government revenue, greater debt, and a crushing future tax burden on our children and grandchildren?

What if … allowing the uneducated, the vindictive, and the nihilistic to elect a President was not such a good idea?

Hey, I was a professor—clearly biased on this score. Who needs an elite to govern? I mean, really?