The appeals to stupidity continue

Hillary, rolling in dough and more conventional in approach, does it in quickie TV ads, as do others including Republicans and their supporters.

Some Democrat ads have a feel the Bern, outsider flavor, comparable to the Trumpist flavor of some Republican ads.

Ads for Katie McGinty, Pennsylvania Democrat running for the senate against conservative Republican Pat Toomey, have her promising to fight the corrupt, rigged system for the little people, while GOP ads label her an insider, a paid and corrupt tool of special interests.

But at the same time other salvos have a more conventional flavor, like the Toomey campaign's comments to the City Paper that label McGinty a pro-tax, weak on national security liberal.

Trump, spending nothing on ads, carries out his appeals to stupidity for the news bites in person, or on his infamous tweets.

Trump: I don't trust U.S. intelligence information

He has said generals have no credibility with him.

Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is an exception, and he explains why.

"I think he's a great guy. I've gotten to know him. He's been a real fan of mine and defender of mine and he's a terrific guy, a terrific general — tough, smart. Feels like I do about illegal immigration, in particular," Trump told Fox News' Ainsley Earhardt in Milwaukee on Tuesday night. 

"He wants to make sure the right people are coming into our country, not the people that we're probably taking in right now. We don't even know who we're taking in. I mean, we have people coming into our country, we have no idea who they are, where they come from and he's somebody that I believe in."

Asked whether he trusts US intelligence, he replied.

"Not so much from the people that have been doing it for our country. I mean, look what's happened over the last 10 years. Look what's happened over the years. It's been catastrophic. And, in fact, I won't use some of the people that are sort of your standards, you know, just use them, use them, use them, very easy to use them, but I won't use them because they've made such bad decisions," said Trump, who will also be joined by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at the inaugural briefing. 

"You look at Iraq. You look at the Middle East. It's a total powder keg. It's a — if we would have never touched it, it would have been a lot better. I mean, we would have been much better off. On top of which, we've spent probably $4 trillion. Nobody even knows what we've spent. So, no, I have great people, and Gen. Flynn is one of them."

Flynn, that great guy who supports his views in immigration, is the man he trusts to screen what the intelligence community tells him.