The media pundits and pollsters, between explaining that they really have no idea how the upcoming mega-storm election will turn out, cover the neck and neck horserace between a candidate who graciously finds the good in Hitler and another who does nothing but harshly criticize Hitler’s admitted excesses.

The Steve Bannon/Vladimir Lenin firehouse of mendacity and outrage, a propaganda blitz featuring a high powered hose spraying disgusting attention-demanding excrement every second of every day to disorient, destabilize and immobilize, never stops.

The latest, the other day (before a dozen more bursts of the trusty far-right diarrhea hose) is the leaked Trump campaign memo that number two on his list of Attorney General picks (and she certainly smells like it) for Trump 2.0/Project 2025 is his loyal last minute appointment Aileen Cannon of the federal bench in his home district in Florida. Her Deputy AG, according to this memo, will be the lawyer who defended Trump in the stolen documents case that Cannon dismissed, after endless delays motivated by a heady mix of partisan calculation and genuine incompetence, on legally incoherent grounds. Her dismissal of her benefactor’s case will be overturned as contrary to law and the criminal prosecution against her patron will almost certainly go forward, assuming Trump doesn’t win and make her, or someone like her, AG.

It’s actually no big deal, though. For, as the Federalist Six have proclaimed, the quid, if it comes after the quo, is merely a perfectly legal gratuity, not a corrupt, prosecutable bribe. She is offered the theoretical job AFTER she dismissed the case, so the job is a perfectly appropriate tip for services rendered. Ergo, no quid pro quo, suckers.

In other news:

Mark Milley is not the only general to call Donald Trump a fascist.

“Certainly the former president is in the far-right area, he’s certainly an authoritarian, admires people who are dictators — he has said that,” John Kelly, the former Marine general who served as Trump’s chief of staff, said during a recent interview with my colleague Michael Schmidt. “So he certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure.”

Kelly even went as far as reading a definition of “fascism” to prove his point. “Well, looking at the definition of fascism: It’s a far-right authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy,” he said.

Those are the kinds of things, Kelly added, that Trump “thinks would work better in terms of running America.”

from an excellent op ed by Jamelle Bouie

Beautiful moment of love between the man himself and the newest official member of MAGA nation, former aspirant for the Democratic presidential nomination Tulsi “I’ll do literally anything” Gabbard.