Good god no! Why would I be doing that? My point was solely around the simplistic view that people that support gun ownership (as I would assume your putative CEO) are 'stupid'
Trump likewise. Whatever one may think about his grip on reality based on his stated view, I think it would be hard to argue that he's stupid.
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I honestly don't know what Trump is. I believe that he spends so much time and effort pretending to be something he's not. That over time, he's developed a seriously flawed personality. That's an incredible understatement. More correctly possibly. There are several opposing or complementary psychological illnesses fighting for supremacy at any given moment. From what witnesses have written, who have been in the Oval Office, while national security briefings have been conducted. He will suddenly blurt out a comment on a subject completely unrelated to the briefing. Something that he's fixated on, in that moment or on that day.
His IQ is moot. Because he has absolutely no interest in anything that isn't directly related to his standing in the polls and his becoming President again in 2024. That's why Trump is in Houston. If the Democrats choose to make the 2024 Presidential election about gun control. Trump will ride the massive opposing wave right back into the Oval Office.
I believe that the states that voted him into office in 2016, had valid grievances about why they wouldn't accept the status quo. He was only nominally a Republican. He adopted the GOP like a virus taking over a host.
From the rust belt, through the corn belt. Through the Tennessee River Valley and down to the Mississippi Delta.
All of the states that Trump carried in 2016 were not coincidently states that had been hollowed out, partly or mostly by trade with China. States that really struggled to move up the value chain or couldn't.
The Cold War with Russia lasted most of my lifetime and has returned. But, now the real threat is a belligerent China and China will remain the most serious threat to democracy for the rest of my lifetime and beyond.