“I got a letter from the NFL,” Trump claimed, “saying this is ridiculous.” The NFL says it sent no such letter. The nation, however, is not immune to the lasting damage that is being done to it by Trump’s success in normalizing post-factual politics. Pence is just the most recent example of how the rubble of ruined reputations will become deeper before Nov. 8. He rarely finishes a sentence (“Believe me!” does not count), but perhaps he is not the scatterbrain he has so successfully contrived to appear. His speeches are, of course, syntactical train wrecks, but there might be method to his madness.

Source: Washington Post August 03, 2016 23:03 UTC