From The Atlantic, why are third-graders afraid of Donald Trump? As students process the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s fear-inducing rhetoric, educators are left to wrestle with bringing these lessons into the classroom. Josh Barro on why it matters that Donald Trump is very vulgar. The power of Trump’s Razor is strong — it commands us to go in directions too imbecilic or stupid to be imagined. If there is one man beside Trump himself whose spirit will inhabit the hall in Cleveland, at least metaphorically, it is Robert L. Bartley. Ed Kilgore on Trump’s bid to transform the GOP into the abusive-daddy party. The “Hillary for Prison” meme is spinning out of control at the RNC (and more). Fears of a clown: Donald Trump’s circus show is drowning out Hillary Clinton’s message.
Top Beltway reporters promulgate absurd false equivalence on Clinton, Trump. Both sides now: Many in the news media feel the need to set up a false equivalence between a candidate who lies repeatedly and his opponent. Leslie Eastman reviews Trump the Press by Don Surber. Donald Trump is crashing the system — journalists need to build a new one. I’m sorry, but if someone thinks there is an “excellent possibility” that “the end of civilization” will occur if people don’t know what he knows, that person doesn’t have the liberty of sitting on such information for over a year — or several decades if one goes back to the original publishing date; now it’s a little too late for Tony Schwartz to ask for a Martin Niemoller-esque mulligan on saving civilization — you said nothing when it mattered most.
Is Donald Trump working for Russia? The Republican Party is pushing Trump toward a war with Black Lives Matter. Trump could seek new law to purge government of Obama appointees. The GOP will be the party of Trump for a long time: He’s not the outsider anymore, but the most important voice in his party. If Trump wins, a coup isn't impossible here in the U.S. Never Trump, now more than ever: The movement isn’t dead — in fact, it just became even more vital.