Steve Stockman served two highly undistinguished non-consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.

He was a top-drawer goofball who was elected the first time in 1994 because he happened to be a Republican in the year of the GOP sweep of Congress.

He returned to Congress in 2013 and then ran for another office after serving another chaotic term in the House.

He’s now likely is headed to prison after being convicted on 23 counts that he spent charitable donations fraudulently for personal gain.

An editorial in the Beaumont Enterprise offered a pithy commentary on Stockman’s conviction, and then concluded with this passage:

” … Just because you like a candidate for one or two positions doesn’t mean he is responsible and trustworthy. Anyone can make wild claims on the campaign trail, but it takes a serious grownup to deliver once in office. When an imposter occasionally slips through, he will be exposed eventually.”

Read the complete editorial here.

I am struck by a peculiar connection in that final paragraph I can read into the troubles of a contemporary politician.

I suppose you could replace the name “Stockman” with “Trump” and reach the same conclusion.

Donald J. Trump parlayed a few policy statements — immigration, making America “great again,” to name just two — that caught the imagination of enough voters to win the Electoral College in 2016.

Yes, he made “wild claims on the campaign trail.” The president is an “imposter” who “slipped through” to win the highest office in the land.

But will he “be exposed eventually”?

My heart hopes that he will.