dimwit

After spending some time in the past couple of years as a leadership ally who’d urge her allies on the far right to think practically, she’s apparently returned to being a full-bore dimwit.

And, of course, in the part for which he is arguably best known, he played a father — not the comic dimwit whose children are all smarter than he, but a caring, responsible and strict figure where it mattered.

That might be a stretch, but DiCaprio is terrific as the gullible dimwit who falls under his uncle’s spell and helps plot the murders of his Osage wife’s family.

DiCaprio is excellent in “Killers of the Flower Moon” playing a dimwit who goes along with his uncle’s scheme of killing his Osage wife’s entire bloodline.

The U.S. attorney who runs Carleton’s office also turns out to be a politically connected, self-important dimwit who is carrying on an affair with a younger female prosecutor in the office—all of which is in fact eminently plausible except for the part where they do basically nothing to conceal it, which allows a member of Carleton’s team to blackmail him when they need him to stop meddling in their work.