Another Reason to Buy DJT

But first . . .

> Inflation expectations are self-fulfilling . . . so Republicans — wanting to believe the worst — may have caused more of it.  An interesting perspective from the Wall Street Journal.

> The Ken Burns Commencement Speech everyone is talking about.  Eloquent, erudite, and stripped here to its very barest nub:

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Listen, I am in the business of history. It is not always a happy subject on college campuses these days, particularly when forces seem determined to eliminate or water down difficult parts of our past . . .

For nearly 50 years now, I have diligently practiced and rigorously tried to maintain a conscious neutrality in my work, avoiding advocacy if I could, trying to speak to all of my fellow citizens. . . .

[Yet] there is no real choice this November. There is only the perpetuation, however flawed and feeble you might perceive it, of our fragile 249-year-old experiment or the entropy that will engulf and destroy us if we take the other route. . . .

The presumptive Republican nominee is the opioid of all opioids . . . the author and finisher of our national existence, our national suicide . . .

Do not be seduced by easy equalization. There is nothing equal about this equation. We are at an existential crossroads in our political and civic lives. This is a choice that could not be clearer.

Remember what Louis Brandeis said, “The most important political office is that of the private citizen.”  Vote.  Please, vote. You indelibly underscore your citizenship, and most important, our kinship with each other, when you do. Good luck and godspeed.

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> Marco Rubio on Trump — 36 seconds (turn sound on, bottom right corner).