This essay may make me sound like what is now pejoratively referred to as an "elitist," and if it does, so be it. One of the reasons that not-particularly-intelligent people (there, I said it) who hated Obama gave for voting enthusiastically for Trump was, "I always felt that Obama was talking down to me; Trump speaks my language." Translation for most Trump voters: "I resented the fact that Obama was way smarter than me, and made me feel dumb." Translation for Southern white Trump voters: "That Obama sounded like an uppity n--ger." But here's the thing that neither Trump nor many of the people that voted for him failed to grasp, perhaps precisely because of their lack of perspicacity: It's hard being president. If it were easy, anyone could do it. Let me rephrase that: it it were easy, anyone could do it well. We've certainly been witness to more than one unintelligent president who did the job poorly. But we've never had ...