The Emperor's new clothes............

Irony, paradox, contradiction, consternation -- these define the times in which we live. . . . 

Historians are never going to rate Trump as a great or even mediocre president. Even so, they may one day come to appreciate the Trump era as the moment when things long hidden became plain to see, when hitherto widely accepted falsehoods, fabrications, and obsolete assumptions about American democracy finally became untenable. For that, if for nothing else, we may yet have reason to thank our 45th president for services rendered.

-As extracted from this Zero Hedge post