Over Thanksgiving weekend, I was discussing Donald Trump with a pair of fellow progressives whom I love and respect. To my surprise, they both claimed that the president is "smart." This wasn't the first time I'd heard a liberal make such an utterance. The typical defense is, "Look where he is. He couldn't have gotten there without a little bit of intelligence. No matter how he comes across and like him or not, he's a smart man." Well, let's take a deeper look at that declaration, shall we? In 1983, American developmental psychologist Howard Gardener described 9 types of intelligence: 1) Naturalist (nature smart) 2) Musical (sound smart) 3) Logical-mathematical (number/reasoning smart) 4) Existential (life smart) 5) Interpersonal (people smart) 6) Bodily-kinesthetic (body smart) 7) Linguistic (word smart) 8) Intra-personal (self smart) 9) Spatial (picture smart) Okay, so let's go through each of the nine forms of intelli...
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