..."imagine you are a secret service agent supervising the President's visit to Sumter Landing next month. (ok, ok, that'll never happen, but just make-believe for a minute!).."

Why would it "never happen"?

I can't imagine the President being one of the types Brooks is referring to, ""We live in a country in which many people live in information cocoons in which they only talk to members of their own party..."

Well, on the other hand....