This might be hard to believe, but there are even worse people than Donald Trump in the Republican Party. When the family of Sen. John McCain, who died last night at 81, announced last week that he was stopping treatment of his brain cancer, “Chemtrail” Kelli Ward, running for Jeff Flake’s senate seat in Arizona, complained that the announcement was timed to hurt her politically.
Even Trump relinquished his Twitter feed long enough to allow a staffer to send condolenscences to the family — you could tell it wasn’t Trump because all the words were spelled correctly — but the family will honor McCain’s wishes, which were that Trump not attend.
Politico looks at how McCain’s seat will be filled, which boils down to a governor’s appointee until the 2020 elections.
The Democratic Party took a step toward living up to its name by greatly reducing the influence of superdelegates in its presidential nominating process.
James Fallows of The Atlantic looks backward in his own archive to see how American institutions have held up against the Trump regime. He finds that — no surprise here — the institution that crumbled most completely is the Republican Party, which folded faster than a jack-high poker hand.