(Everyone, of course, also has bad ideas. Miles had "Doo-Bop"; Jobs had the Apple Lisa).
In my opinion, it's not because he has bad ideas, but because his campaign strategy is to portray himself as an exemplar of moral virtue and Clinton as evil incarnate.
It's not that your boss has bad ideas; it's that you're busy and you can't get to the gee-whiz stuff without making a mess of what you're working on.
There is a difference between having bad ideas and not grasping basic facts.
No one is likely to accuse Rick Smolan and David Elliot Cohen of having bad ideas.
When we give ourselves permission to have bad ideas, we often come up with the best ones.
Communism's revolutionaries had bad ideas (Lenin, Ortega, Pol Pot), and given the chance (Castro, Hoxha, Mao) have made a habit of imposing them for a horribly long time.
Some need to have bad ideas excised: Mexico was right to change its constitution last year, to end a ban on foreign investment in its oil-and-gas industry.
Rand Paul ducked the question, while everyone else avoided it or criticized Trump for the way he said things, not for having bad ideas about immigration.
