Count on Squirrel-Hair to make it worse - today's edition

The buffoon-in-chief doubles down on the boneheadedness:

Late Monday evening, he tweeted: “Made additional remarks on Charlottesville and realize once again that the #Fake News Media will never be satisfied… truly bad people!” Which made the afternoon statement look like a begrudging concession to an ungrateful press corps rather than a genuine expression. As if to validate the impression, Trump retweeted an alt-right figure a few hours later.

Set aside the inane whataboutism of the tweet itself: “39 shootings in Chicago this weekend, 9 deaths. No national media outrage. Why is that?” Chicago’s crime epidemic deserves media coverage, to be sure, but so does a white-nationalist rally that ends with a motor-vehicle rampage, the death of one innocent and the maiming of at least 19 others.

More notable was the author of the tweet, Jack Posobiec. The Canadian activist and “reporter” is a creature of the alt-right fevered swamps. He wouldn’t deserve a minute’s attention but for the fact that he has now been thrust into global prominence by the leader of the Free World.

Posobiec has described Richard Spencer, the organizer of the Charlotte night of the long torches, as “indispensable.” He has peddled the conspiracy theory that Democrats ran a pedophilia ring out of a Washington pizza parlor. Most bizarre, by my lights, is his claim that globalist forces have drugged French President Emmanuel Macron since his earliest days and are now using him as a puppet.

“It may be a way that they found this guy [Macron] very, very young,” he told the conspiracy network Infowars, “and they were using that to essentially turn him into a puppet, turn him into a marionette, and now they’re plying him with drugs, keeping him drugged up and getting him to do whatever they want.”

Sohrab Ahmari at Commentary, whose article I'm linking and excerpting here, draws the readily apparent larger point. Well, it ought to be readily apparent, but some are too awash in Kool-Aid to see it:

As for his defenders in the conservative media, the ones who are convinced that a responsible, presidential Trump is just around the corner: He will always disappoint you. And with each disappointment comes a fresh dose of humiliation.

Most of these supporters I don't give a flying diddly about. But there's a certain kind of Kool-Aid guzzler whose conversion really saddens me. What is a man of depth, erudition, and broad understanding of what Western civilization is all about like Victor Davis Hanson doing not only carrying Trump's water, but still portraying those of us who are pointing out how unfit Trump is as effete, insular "Bourbons"?

He sometimes speaks of the friends he's lost at publications he writes for and even at the Hoover institution. I'm not surprised.