Crazy, party of one

It’s been years — if not decades — since Donald Trump was taken seriously. Why should his publicity-stunt “presidential campaign” be any different? If Winston Churchill had nothing to offer his countrymen but blood, toil, tears and sweet, Trump has naught but xenophobia, paranoia, racism and religious bigotry. More pertinently, Trump’s strenuous verbal shadow-boxing looks like a high-visibility diversion to distract the “family values” crowd from his ongoing involvement in — horrors! — the casino industry. (Simply accepting donations from Sheldon Adelson has proven fatal to congressional candidates in the Bible Belt.) If Trump actually takes his one-ring circus on the primary trail (and I’m certain he won’t), expect gaudy stock footage of Trump’s three (four, if you count extinct Trump World’s Fair) to be splashed across every attack ad aimed in his direction. In the meantime, I’m sure Trump’s doing a great job of ginning up ratings for his Sunday-night NBC-TV comedy show.