Agee. I get the whole window-pushing overt racism thing but I don't think he's doing that. I think he really in his little shriveled heart, thinks that he was being oh so reasonable and since he can't understand what all these people he doesn't like and doesn't understand are going on about it must not really be important to anything he might care about... like having an effective military force.
He isn't curious, and I suspect learning is painful for him. He's dangerously incurious.