“Dining With Nazis” sounds like the title of the latest Coen brothers film or a recently unearthed memoir of a favored restaurateur from the Third Reich. When it describes the social life of a declared candidate for president of the United States, we have a right to ask what it might mean. News of Donald Trump’s recent soiree at Mar-a-Lago with Nicholas Fuentes , a man whose repugnance stands in inverse relationship to his intellectual capacity, reminds us that the former and perhaps future president’s ability to attain new levels of notoriety remains impressively undimmed. Also at the table was noted musician, philosopher and apparently fellow candidate for the highest office Kanye West, who calls himself Ye. Mr. West has of late added to his repertoire of lyrical achievement the warning that he was about to go “death con 3 on Jewish people,” so it’s not unreasonable to infer some wider significance from this symposium of disordered minds.

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