All of this makes me think that politicians are in a sense less important than intellectuals and activists.

Now, «In a theocracy, the ceremonial office holders are generally less important than the priests» is self-evident. The rest of mental efforts resulting in this trivial thesis were wasted on elaborate dances around euphemisms and flinching whenever the author brushed electric fences of crimestop. Is it not just silly and exasperating?

Scott Adams saw an opening for self-promotion and took it, to his credit.

…nobody thought he would win the general election,

Scott Adams did. So… “nobody” to whom Hanania listens. The problem might be on his side.

…and conservatives weren’t really prepared to do much of anything other than give him judges to confirm.

And the sky was shockingly blue. When were they really prepared to do much of anything?

“It’s easy imagining all of this happening with out Trump, but not without us!”

Then why didn’t they actually, you know, ever do anything useful?

And they wonder why people hate and mistrust intellectuals.