President Obama indulged in what he described as a “rant” — nice admission. (Really.) It included a blast at “somebody,” anybody, “who labels ‘us versus them’ or engages in rhetoric about how we’re going to look after ourselves and take it to the other guy.”

Below, Victor Davis Hanson counted some of the ways in which Obama was hypocritical. Let me add one. In the last presidential campaign, Obama ran an ad that said, “Mitt Romney. Not one of us.”

Yup, that is true — if by the ad you meant that Romney is very, very different from Obama. He is an excellent man who would make an excellent president.

The Obamites and the Trumpites are united in one thing (among others): contempt for Romney. Elements of the Right said that they wanted the dead opposite of Romney for the GOP nomination this time. Boy, did they get him.

I submit that Bernie Sanders would be an intriguing VP choice for Trump. It would be a fusion ticket — two statisms, of different hues. A coalition of the disaffected. It could win, versus Herself, in November.

Thus do I try to release my inner Machiavel . . .