There seems to be a certain weariness in the formerly mainstream media when it comes to reporting on the Trump campaign.  He's had them so many times they're behaving like those trout in popular catch-'n'-release western streams that have been hooked so often that they come out of the water dragging along like an old boot. Instead, most negative energy now emanates from the right.  This is because conservatives, and I include myself,  are wedded to what we could call a conservative victory script – i.e., elect a strict constitutionalist president, Tea Party majorities in both houses, the right Supreme Court appointees, and so on down our flower-strewn imaginary road back to the former Republic. And Trump doesn't fit into that scenario. Well, so what?  Isn't that cherished victory script only an illusion?  As proof, we might look at what has happened with our state governments – in a word, nothing.  Because...(Read Full Post)