I’m surprised more people aren’t comparing Trump’s surprising run to ole’ Ross Perot, back in 1992. I think it was much the same trend — rich, straight-shooter, says he’ll fix things in Washington by bypassing the politics with his business acumen. The not-so-subtext being that fixing things is easy, but the political elite are too corrupt and wimpy to get it done.

Of course, the big difference between now and then is now badly the right-wing, nativist problem has metastasized. And Ross Perot, for all his craziness, was a genius compared to Trump’s lunacy. And Perot had a pretty inspired pick for his VP — not just a war hero, but a professor (PhD?) of ancient philosophy (the anti-Palin).