After president-elect Donald Trump's 10-15 minute scheduled get-to-know-you with lame-duck president Barack Obama ran an hour and a half, too many of my friends who ought to know better contacted me with some variant of "maybe everything really is going to be OK after all." No. It really isn't.
Saturday Night Live's Dave Chappelle says he's "going to give Trump a chance." We should not.
Trump's wide-eyed expression as he sucked in his new D.C. digs, pathetically reminiscent of the stupefied expressions of Bolshevik revolutionists wandering the Winter Palace, brought it home: The barbarians are at the gate.