THE DIOGENES FACTOR: WILL SUCCESS SPOIL BEN CARSON? As Roger Simon writes, “The country, as we know from the immense success of Trump, is fed up with the political class:”

Diogenes of Sinope, it will be recalled, was the ascetic ancient Greek philosopher famed for spending his life, or a good part of it, looking for an honest man. Carson, at least to some degree, is the man Diogenes, and a significant part of today’s Republican electorate, was and is searching for.  Given the other side has as its leading candidate someone who is quite literally the poster child for total political and ethical dishonesty, with a complaisant media doing cartwheels to ignore her behavior, it’s no wonder such a person as Carson is attractive.  And this is not even counting the serial prevarications of the incumbent, from “you can keep your doctor” to we will have “anytime, anywhere” inspections of Iran, among a host of others.  Most of us are up to our eyes in lies and are in desperate search, like Diogenes, of an “honest man.”

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