Saving The World, $15 At A Time June 17, 2020June 17, 2020 People Who Voted For Trump In 2016 Are Revealing Their “Breaking Point” Moment When They Stopped Supporting Him And Walter Shapiro here argues that the Trump campaign is a Potemkin village, designed to make him think he’s going to win. Which is encouraging to read . . . though needless to say, with the whole world at stake, no one should exhale until a Democratic Senate has been sworn in and the Bidens take up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania 17 days later. So here’s a way you can chip in anywhere from $15 on up to attend the Big Biden Bash (BYOB) next Tuesday, June 23, at 5:15PM EDT. Obama and Biden, teamed up again to save the world. A friend was not aware of the book of speeches Trump kept by his bedside for many years (according to his ex-wife, whose divorce attorney kept it in his safe) — a fact Trump only sort of weakly denied, when, confronted by Vanity Fair, he said no, it was not a book of speeches, it was Mein Kampf. (But it was a book of speeches.) So — not least because she was giving $50,000 to help wrest power from Trump and McConnell — I forwarded her the column I had written laying all this out in January 2016, when no one, including Trump, expected him to win. And re-read it. And am now a little embarrassed to have taken such a bright view. (“Dreadful, perhaps; unfit to be president, for sure; but not evil.”) Even now, “evil” may be too strong. Evil implies a psychopath’s intent to harm. The harm Trump has done is merely the product of a reckless old staggeringly narcissistic incompetent ignorant sociopath. Who could walk down Fifth Avenue shooting people, and Lindsey Graham would find a way to excuse. Re-reading the post, I realized I had forgotten about the World War I injury — to a single, lowly soldier — that ultimately led to tens of millions of deaths.