I see about one story every day where some country agreed to buy more of our stuff, often energy, because that's the easiest thing. Everybody needs some. So that goes to Trump's benefit.

I saw an interesting article by Orin McIntyre who was at The Blaze and he said the right is facing a serious problem about how to handle its intellectuals. And I thought the right has intellectuals? Who are these intellectuals and what is this problem? Well I think I'll just read you his opinion and then I'll give you mine.

So he says Orin McIntyre says the right is facing a serious problem about how to handle its intellectuals. The left has the university where it can assign smart people good-paying high-status jobs where they can explore and cultivate ideas. But the right has no similar institutions. So right-wing intellectuals end up in think tanks or content production. This creates the public intellectual who comes onto the scene with a burst of insight. But content production is a grind. Even if you're saying intelligent things, eventually the need to say something about everything leaves you little time to think deeply about anything. Academics are also not really equipped to be public figures. They are not built to do battle with the hostile public on a regular basis.

So what I'm reading into this is that if you get on the grind of having to say something about everything that you just don't have the ability to do what you might be able to do in a university, which is take some time to really think through something more deeply.

But I have a completely different view. My view is that you should not look at the smart people on either side as individuals. Rather, you should see them as a system or one intelligence. What I see on the left is that their system of how to deal with smart people on the left is that they are minimized and that the left surfaces the worst takes from the dumbest people. Now you've seen it, right? The people on the left are not being driven by their smartest people. I mean very clearly they literally have some kind of upside down system where the loudest most prominent voices are actually their dumbest people, the Jasmine Crocketts etc. Right? And you see it consistently. If somebody's really dumb and they're a Democrat you're going to hear from them a lot.

But it seems to me that the smartest people on the right operate like one brain. You know your own brain wrestles with things and disagrees with itself all the time, right? You have that experience. If it's just you thinking about a new topic in the news, you probably go back and fo