When judging a book by its cover may be perfectly sensible

I know it's generally unwise to make assumptions about people, especially based on appearances. How many times have we been told not to judge a book by its cover? But I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest there's virtually no risk in hazarding a guess about the political views of guys (they always seem to be guys) who own pickups with a full-sized American flag mounted in the truck bed.

It's probably safe to assume that most of these uber-patriots, who drive as if traffic-safety laws only apply to wimps, love Donald Trump with a passion the rest of us reserve for German chocolate cake. And they would love him even more if he were, you know, even less restrained. More blunt. Less circumspect. More forceful. Less deferential.

I could be wrong, of course. There may be a renegade Bernie Sanders fan behind the wheel of one of these speeding, careening, tailgating rigs. Or a Hillary Clinton supporter. Or a PETA member bound for the Maine coast, to save the lobsters. But I'd bet a dozen jelly doughnuts against it.