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No one seems to have brought up the obvious.
hank — (archived)

Any other President-elect, R or D, would have simply said,

"These are serious and troubling charges. My staff and I will consult with
our intelligence community and tech experts and come up with an appropriate response should it become necessary."

And then he would have shut up: Reassure the public, acknowledge the problem, keep the enemy guessing, and later, when you have the facts and have thought it over, do something about it if necessary and possible.

Instead, our Mr Trump publicly tweets, "This is all a Democrat sour-grapes plot to discredit me because they lost the election. Its all an evil mainstream media hoax, like global warming."

I'd like to think he's acting dumb just to throw the Russians off, but I doubt it. I think he really IS dumb. Dumber than the people who voted for him, but nowhere near as dumb as those now rushing to his defense.

There has always been a strong anti-intellectual streak in the American soul. As a nation, we don't like smart people. We think they are sissies, effeminate, indecisive, cowardly, conceited, elitist, clumsy and arrogant. Of course, Americans aren't born any smarter or dumber on the average than anyone else in the world, but our culture distrusts, even despises smart people. As far as we are concerned, men should only be smart about sports or business. Any other evidence of intelligence is to be hidden. Its bad manners to pretend you're not as stupid as everyone else. Smart Americans learn real young to conceal it, while the dumb ones are proud to display that they are just like everybody else.

Or maybe he's just acting dumb to reassure his supporters that he's one of them.

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