The Eternal Sigh

I've now written two goddamn blog posts (this being the third) on the whole "taking Trump seriously but not literally" bullshit, and only just now did I realize that the author of the original Atlantic piece, Salena Zito, is a conservative propagandist.  Thus ends my interest in the question, which I originally thought was intriguing, then thought to be misleading, and now think didn't deserve even a moment of my thought.  Shame on the Atlantic for publishing this garbage.