This is from a post by David Horowitz at FrontPageMag which he titles, Election Fog. And what was important to me was that he sees past the lack of knowledge and historical understanding to the core motivations of Trump’s run for president.

Trump showed himself recklessly ill-informed on the causes of the Iraq War during the South Carolina debate. George Bush did not lie to lead us into war – that is, in fact, a Democrat lie. The Iraq War was about Saddam’s defiance of a UN Security Council ultimatum to disclose and destroy his Weapons of Mass Destruction. Contrary to an enormously destructive political myth, the WMDs did exist – including 2250 Sarin-gas-filled-rockets and chemical weapons in storage tanks that Saddam buried and are now in the possession of ISIS. Finally, the destabilization of Iraq and the Middle East are entirely a consequence of Obama’s policies not George Bush’s as Trump falsely maintained. Trump’s misreading of the Iraq War is a serious political fault. But it is the result of ignorance rather than malice against his country, which is what motivates the left. Whatever one thinks of Trump, he is justly hated by the Sanders radicals, who understand that his intentions make him their nemesis not their twin.

It’s not something you can pass over lightly since understanding history is crucial to political judgement, but history can be learned. The will and judgement to do the right thing is what matters in the end, and the question that does still remain open is whether Trump does have the judgement to succeed. I think he does, and more so than any of the others, but that still remains the question after all of the other issues have gone by.