When Donald Trump met privately with a group of CEOs in Washington earlier this month, he promised them mammoth tax cuts. That reckless pledge didn’t dominate the news coverage; in fact, it barely registered.

Instead there was dramatic reporting of the CEOs’ evaluations of Trump’s mental state during the meeting. Andrew Ross Sorkin relayed one summary on CNBC: “Remarkably meandering, could not keep a straight thought. Was all over the map.”

There’s a fundamental mistake embedded in that reaction. Trump is guilty of many things; lack of focus is not one of them.

Apply philosopher Isaiah Berlin’s typology of the fox (who knows many things) and the hedgehog (who knows only one big thing) and Trump falls, with a thump, on the hedgehog’s side of the line.

The one big thing Trump grasps is what could be called the “politics of appetite.” Trump wants more. He knows that tomorrow, and every day after that, he will still want more. More of what doesn’t really matter. And........

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