Cleveland is where the Trump campaign went to die. Donald Trump’s NATO comments are the scariest thing he’s said. Donald Trump wants the world to burn: He’s weakening the U.S. and sowing chaos just to win an election. McConnell says supporting Trump is fine, because if push comes to shove, we can always have a coup. Mike Pence is helping Republican leaders convince themselves Trump will be okay. Lauren Fox and Tierney Sneed go behind the Religious Right’s efforts to strong arm Donald Trump. Sarah Posner on how Donald Trump divided and conquered evangelicals: Though Trump’s hardly a model of Christianity, the vast majority of evangelicals say they’ll vote for him. D.D. Guttenplan on how a book on Hitler’s mass appeal, Who Voted for Hitler? by Richard F. Hamilton, explains why we can’t underestimate Trump.
Donald Trump may break the mold, but he fits a pattern, too — like the political equivalent of a comet that crosses American presidential campaigns every few decades. Thomas B. Edsall on the apotheosis of Donald J. Trump. Is Donald Trump a sociopath? James Hamblin takes his biographer’s claim seriously.
