With all due respect to the author of this piece, he’s just realizing this now?!
Does it matter when/how he came to it? The important thing is that he said it. No sense in casting aspersions on those who are helpful to sanity and reason.
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” — H. L. Mencken
It’s not like we weren’t warned about losing our Republic.