Late last month the revered film director David Lynch, creator of idiosyncratic surrealist classics like Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and the TV series Twin Peaks, said something truly odd. Speaking to the Guardian, Lynch said that Donald J. Trump “could go down as one of the greatest presidents in history because he has disrupted the thing so much.”

One can see, perhaps, where Lynch is coming from. Although Trump has governed in many ways like a standard Republican, he has behaved like a raging bull in a china shop. You can see why handing the single-most powerful job in the world to a person of his temperament might seem like a great disruption.

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