Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018 | 2 a.m.
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The epitome of cool, debonair and svelte is back, and not a moment is be wasted now that our midterm elections loom. We desperately require Barack Obama’s intelligent and stable guidance, for much of his political party has — let’s not sugarcoat it — become unhinged. Yes, President Donald Trump has that effect, and a wise hand will be required to steer Democrats back to political terra firma.
Trump’s presidency is a shambolic stress test. If he limited his tweets to legitimate affairs of state instead of seeking revenge against imagined slights, I could cease washing snide asides from my eyes and gall from my tongue, all a colossal waste of time and mood. But his base loves him and dang it, occasionally his policies that strike gold — tax reform and deregulation, for instance, give the lie to Obama’s insistence that 2 percent growth is the new normal and we will not again see anything like the present 4.2 percent. It sticks in my craw as it does the collective craw of all who accept Obama as the penultimate policy lodestar.
Anyhow, welcome back, Mr. Obama. At least your assaults on the opposition will hew to Marquess of Queensberry Rules and help direct us back to decency in the political arena.
