You know, this thing...This strikes me as different from other Trumpisms, doesn’t it you? If you’re a Trump supporter then I know it is not going to change your mind, you’re a criminal with a defective brain, but the important thing about that is we should stop looking at Trump’s disapproval ratings. NOTHING is going to make them change markedly. The important point is we should not want defectives. We should not be hoping for defective defections. We should attack the defectives and exclude them. So back to Trump’s chart. For all those except Trump Criminals this strikes me as different. I’ll let Eugene Robinson of WaPo and Pete Buttigieg speak for I’m not sure how I would phrase the difference.

“I know it’s a minor episode, but I hope that doctored map makes its way into the Smithsonian someday. Like Washington’s uniform or Jefferson’s desk, Trump’s bogus map embodies the man.”

-Eugene Robinson

Put it in the Smithsonian. It does seem to me museum worthy. So singular that it should be in a museum. Yes, it is.

Now Pete Buttigieg:

 "I feel sorry for the President, and that is not the way we should feel about the most powerful figure in this country...

“No matter how you cut it, this is an unbelievably sad state of affairs for our country.

"...even if we disagree with the President... what we're seeing there is literally pathetic. It makes you feel a kind of pity for everybody involved, and that's not how I want to feel about a president whether it's for my party or the other."

Like you would a defective, feeling sorry for him or her; “pity,” “sad,” “pathetic.” There is a detachment there. We’re looking at it at a remove from politics. As we would look at something in a museum! Pete's reaction is on the same plane as Nancy Pelosi's statement that she was against impeachment because, "He's just not worth it." Not worth it.

By far the most common reaction however has been direct, not detached but direct: derision. Comedians can remake their careers on just this one incident. And that is fine also. I have urged to an audience of tens that making fun of Trump and the Defectives is best. They hate that. The one thing that most gets under Trump's skin is best exemplified here:

He hated when the adults in the room early on said they were the adults in the room. Nobody likes to be laughed at. I will give you a true story to illustrate. The old TV situation comedy All in the Family. That show ranked number one in the Nielsen rankings every year from 1971-1976. In 1974 I met the first unfortunate ex-Mrs. Harris. Her father was a dead ringer attitudinally for Archie Bunker, I mean my God, it was unbelievable. I sheepishly asked the first Unfortunate if her father watched All in the Family. "No, because they laugh at Archie," she said. He knew, you see? He knew that he was a dead ringer for Archie Bunker and when he saw the entire country laughing at Archie he had the self-awareness to know that everybody laughed at him too!

Parsing, one should not make fun of somebody one "feels sorry" for. You don't go into a mental institution and make fun of the patients. The detachment of the reactions of Eugene Robinson, Pete Buttigieg, and Nancy Pelosi versus direct laughing...I do think this is different; there has been so much comedic fodder in this presidency, what's one more thing? But as a Trump Hater I cannot dismiss him as "not worth it," nor take a detached view. I do not feel sorry for him, I do not pity him, I hate him. Whatever works, I can't make up my mind but I lean heavily toward derision. If you made that image into a bumper sticker, is there anything more that need be said? Maybe I'll do that.