* “Like Trump himself, his (power) worshippers can see the world around them only through a prism of us-against-them, in which principles simply don’t count.”–Jonah Goldberg, The Dispatch.
* “You should run for Senate majority leader.”–Trump to Rick Scott (chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee), reportedly on multiple occasions. Reportedly with a straight face.
* Three Trump-critic Republicans who could launch presidential bids after the mid-terms: Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney.
* Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, we’ve now learned, registered to vote in 2020 using the address of a North Carolina mobile home he had never lived in. So, yes, it’s verifiably true that there were voting irregularities in that last presidential election, the one lost by the candidate with the fewest votes.
* The assault rifle that was used by Kyle Rittenhouse to kill two protesters in Kenosha is no more. Wisconsin officials fed it to a shredder. The rationale: It was an evil symbol! No. Rittenhouse didn’t want somebody to buy it and turn it into a trophy. A trophy! That’s for bowling, not manslaughtering.