Donald Trump is as brazen and bold as Pinocchio. Only his most dangerous opponent can humiliate him. This is not China at all

Everyone knows the poor carpenter Geppetto, who carved himself a puppet and named it Pinocchio. This puppet was extraordinary, and also exceptionally impudent and susceptible to flattery: Pinocchio believed every word he was told, especially if it gave him pleasure. Pinocchio also could not lie, even if he liked it. The bigger the lie, the longer his nose became, so that his words were exposed as lies in real time. It was not morality, but the l…