I used to wonder why in the heck right-wing commentators on Fox News kept repeating the same mantra over and over again: sitting through the Republican debates, my eyes glazed over when I heard each and every candidate denounce the Obama administration for refusing to say the Sacred Words: "radical Islamic terrorism." What are these people talking about, I thought to myself: they're obsessed!

In short, I wrote it off as Fox News boilerplate, until the other day when, in the wake of the Orlando massacre, Donald Trump said the following on Fox: "Something is going on. He doesn't get it, or he gets it better than anybody understands. It's one or the other." Reiterating this trope later on in the same show, he averred that the President "is not tough, not smart – or he's got something else in mind."