MAGA GOP, NOW REDUCED TO THE SECTARIAN PERSONALITY CULT OF A DESPISED CRIMINAL WEIRDO, IS FIRMLY ON TRACK FOR EXTINCTION;
HARRIS LOCKS IN DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION IN VIRTUAL ROLL CALL OF STATES; VICE PRESIDENTIAL AND CONVENTION BOUNCES STILL TO COME;
DEMOCRATS MAKE STEADY GAINS AS TRUMP RAVES AND INSULTS, WHILE SIDEKICK VANCE DISGUSTS VOTERS; PROJECT 2025 BREAKS THROUGH AS MASS TRACTION VOTING ISSUE FOR OPPONENTS OF BLUEPRINT FOR FASCISM; ROVE FORECASTS HARRIS WILL COMMAND LEAD WITHIN DAYS; HARRIS LEAD ENCOURAGES UKRAINE, UNDERCUTTING DEFEATISM;
FOCUS ON NOVEMBER-DECEMBER LAME DUCK SESSION, WITH BEATEN AND HUMILIATED TRUMP HEADED BACK INTO TRIALS ON WAY TO PRISON; RETIRING AND DEFEATED MAGAts SHOULD BE UNABLE TO BLOCK SUCH URGENT BILLS AS RETURN TO ROE, VOTING RIGHTS, SUPREME COURT REFORM, AND DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL POLICY;
The Bulwark joins discussion of how Republican Party may follow Federalists and Whigs into oblivion; Trump has lost his nerve, is gripped by fear of debate with Harris, freaks out over fact-checking proposed by NABJ; a personality cult without the person has no other unity and must be torn apart by rivalries;
Biden delivers masterpiece of humanitarian diplomacy in largest prisoner swap since end of Cold War, freeing 16 from Kremlin and Belarus captivity in exchange for 8 Russian persons and 2 children; German Chancellor Scholz credits Biden personally with success; Deal involved Russia, Belarus, Slovenia, Poland, US, Estonia, Germany, Norway, Maldives;
Biden praises allies and friends as indispensable partners, contradicting MAGA xenophobic demagogy; Humiliated Trump last seen sidelined, irrelevant, and whining with typical delusional claim he could have magically freed everybody while giving Putin nothing;