text: I've never been accused of not speaking my mind here -- I regularly call Trump and his mob far worse than "deplorable." And "madman" is a term some of his own  dismayed countrymen and allies use for him, too easy to attach to foreign foes.
  The point of the Kristof trip to N.K. was to humanize the alleged demons there -- and even their boyish leader, erratic as he is, who seems to have come to the obvious truth (since 1945): when your nation has nukes, the world takes you more seriously. 
  Even Trump's guru Bannon conceded last month, "...there's no military solution, they got us." But then, even old Steve expressed more concern than some of his colleagues for the potential casualties, "millions" in retaliation on Seoul alone. Or would those evangelical Trumpers, so sure of their rapture to come, claim that America might have to destroy the world "...in order to save it."