Delaware Liberal

Here is Matt Flegenheimer’s write-up at The New York Times on Hillary's speech yesterday, which I consider to be one of her best speeches ever:

In a 31-minute address, building to a controlled simmer, Mrs. Clinton did everything but call Mr. Trump a racist outright — saying he had promoted “racist lie” after “racist lie,” pushed conspiracy theories with “racist undertones” and heartened racists across the country by submitting to an “emerging racist ideology known as the alt-right.” [...] ​With Mr. Trump’s rise, Mrs. Clinton has often struck a have-you-no-sense-of-decency theme in her critiques — warning sternly and repeatedly that the arc of his candidacy transcended standard political attack. But her effort on Thursday was remarkable for its exhaustive accounting of Mr. Trump’s controversial racial history in business and in his presidential campaign.

Jonathan Chait: “The main difficulty Trump faces in dispelling the impression that he is a racist is that Trump is, in fact, a gigantic racist.” Meanwhile, the Daily Beast says Donald is in trouble: “Donald Trump used his campaign funds to buy thousands of copies of his own book at retail cost, simultaneously diverting donor money back into his pockets while artificially boosting his sales figures. It’s a tactic that may be illegal, campaign finance experts say.”

Laura Clawson says that Donald Trump won't let go of Hillary's main weakness in his eyes: that she is not a man.

“I’m a journalist.” — Sean Hannity, on Fox News in 2008. “I never claimed to be a journalist.” — Hannity, quoted by the New York Times on how he’s been advising Donald Trump.