3/3 “It’s an attempt to fool people. Trump’s primary power is the power we give him when he asserts he is in control of everything, and we believe him.”

2/ Listen to Justin Levitt, a lawyer who served as a senior adviser on voting rights in the Biden administration:

“Donald Trump is a marketing machine, and what he is doing right now is marketing power he does not have,” said Levitt.

My essay on that topic from a few months ago.

2/ from sheriff to DA to county recorder to comptroller, as well as all four judgeships and all four Central Bucks school board seats and three of four in Pennridge.

Best of all: Bucks Co is a perennial bellwether of national politics.

The blue wave is here, and only gonna grow!

3/3 any more than one would run a headline reading "Trump announces plan to flap arms and fly to the moon."

2/ In the old days, a presidency would get the benefit of the doubt on a given issue until it failed on that issue. But with Trump, it gives him unearned goodwill to report with a straight face on anything that he promises,

4/4

3/ CBS’s rocket-to-the-sewer is traveling faster than even its harshest critics predicted.

2/ This TNR piece never explicitly says that, but Forbes (see link in thread). notes that during the interivew itself Trump told Norah O’Donnell specific things that they “could” cut. (Will no one rid him of this troublesome priest?) And they did.

2/2 @hannarosin.bsky.social and David A. Graham on how Trump is trying to undermine the elections in '26 and '28.....a scheme that will get even more aggressive now that Donald and the Republicans took a shellacking this past Tue.