Never forget that Trump has the nuclear codes

One unhinged man has the power to destroy the world. Sleep tight!

The psychic hero of Stephen King’s The Dead Zone meets Greg Stillson, a bombastic populist politician, and has a premonition about him being elected President and launching America’s nuclear arsenal. (Martin Sheen played Stillson in David Cronenberg’s movie version, a far cry from The West Wing.)

America actually elected Greg Stillson in 2016. (If someone did try to assassinate Trump, I can guarantee you he’d try to use a baby as a human shield.) Thankfully he’s been too busy watching TV to actually launch a nuclear attack, but Claire Berlinski reminds us that he has pretty much unchallenged power to do so.

Have a nice day!

When all of this is over, many years from now, we will find out, I am sure—in the finest of ironies—that the Deep State saved us. I have to imagine—I must imagine, I’d go mad otherwise—that some kind of secret protocol has been worked out in the Pentagon. It cannot be true that we are following the letter of the law on this, the gravest of matters, the most sacrosa…