About those West Point cadets, called back to campus to risk their health (and possibly their lives) listening to Donald Trump admire himself:

The cadets who selflessly risked their lives to put up with Trump have earned the admiration and sympathy of every thinking American.

But the cadet who had the imagination to raise the morale of so many by wearing that T-shirt, and the formidable courage to wear it knowing full well the ruinous consequences of getting caught with it under his or her uniform....that cadet will one day be a five-star general.

WHOOPS!  I am red-faced. Turns out, according to Snopes, that the cadet wearing this T-shirt exists only in a photoshopped cloud.
Serves me right for not having checked on this before I ran it. There's an apocryphal story about a newspaper city editor — or perhaps a story about an apocryphal newspaper city editor — who sternly advised his young reporters, "If your mother says she loves you, check it out."

But worse than the loss of face is the loss of faith. I had hoped that somewhere among the young people who will one day lead this nation, there was an incipient general who would not just go with the flow whenever Donald Trump unzips to urinate.

Alas, I may have been wrong about the faith as well as the fact. In which case, further alas, we are all doomed.