Four years ago, Donald Trump's first year-long anti-establishment charade ended when, naturally, he settled his presidential endorsement on the GOP establishment's candidate.  I say "naturally," because flattering or carrying water for the status quo has been the most natural thing in the world for this megalomaniac, driven as he apparently is by the insecure schoolboy's ultimate fear, namely being disliked or ignored by the popular kids.  A mere nuisance becomes a potential danger, however, when the calculating flatterer widens his aim from the elites to the general population, i.e., when sycophancy devolves into demagoguery. Let us begin by laying out the political history of a garden variety sycophant. Trump supported Bill Clinton when Clinton's popularity was riding high, and even years later said he had been "a great president."  He supported George W. Bush and the Iraq war when that was the popular thing to do; but when...(Read Full Article)