I’ve been poking around the post-shutdown comments to get a greater understanding of how the commander-in-chief’s brain-locked base reacted to his retreat from demanding big money for his storied wall. The tense body language of his apologists told me that they are struggling to make sense of their favorite president.

They have been squirming.   Making lame excuses.  Some even abandoning their faith that he would indeed Make America Great Again on the backs of brown-skinned terrorists.  It was ugly and the polls reflected the despair.

The twiggish and loopy Ann Coulter, for example, who […]