Rachel Leingang writes that you have to listen to in full to the rally speeches of serial sex abuser Donald Trump (SSAT) to appreciate how unhinged they are. The snippets that are broadcast, even if they are of his lies and lunacies, actually make him seem more lucid than he really is.

He’s on the campaign trail less these days than he was in previous cycles – and less than you’d expect from a guy with dedicated superfans who brags about the size of his crowds every chance he gets. But when he has held rallies, he speaks in dark, dehumanizing terms about migrants, promising to vanquish people crossing the border. He rails about the legal battles he faces and how they’re a sign he’s winning, actually. He tells lies and invents fictions. He calls his opponent a threat to democracy and claims this election could be the last one.

Trump’s tone, as many have noted, is decidedly more vengeful this time around, as he seeks to reclaim the White House after a bruising loss that he insists was a steal. This alone is a cause for concern, foreshadowing what the Trump presidency redux could look like. But he’s also, quite frequently, rambling and incoherent, running off on tangents that would grab headlines for their oddness should any other candidate say them.
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Watching a Trump speech in full better shows what it’s like inside his head: a smorgasbord of falsehoods, personal and professional vendettas, frequent comparisons to other famous people, a couple of handfuls of simple policy ideas, and a lot of non sequiturs that veer into barely intelligible stories.
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These tangents can be part of a tirade, or they can be what one can only describe as complete nonsense.

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After huffing and puffing about how we needed to have a new party that had no ideology, the group No Labels has shut down because they could not find any high profile (or even medium profile) people willing to agree to be their presidential nominee.

The group’s decision not to field a ticket will likely be celebrated by Democrats, who had long warned that No Labels’ effort would have helped boost Donald Trump and harm President Joe Biden.

The group, in its statement, said it will “remain engaged over the next year during what is likely to be the most divisive presidential election of our lifetimes. We will promote dialogue around major policy challenges and call out both sides when they speak and act in bad faith.”

Yeah, well good luck with that. Nobody is likely to pay any attention to the pontifications of people who thought of themselves as more important than ideas.

The whole enterprise was ridiculous. Any political party has to stand for some thing, just like any group of people need to have some common goal that unites them if they are to get together. The idea that people who do not stand for anything would get together around some leader who also does not stand for anything other than being proud of not standing for anything, and that a party platform would somehow emerge from such a group, was an idea of extreme silliness. It has now deservedly been consigned to the dustbin of history.

The person who was the national director of the group says that he will now vote for Joe Biden over serial sex abuser Donald Trump or Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.