* Trump translated: “The system is rigged. Believe me, I know. I’m a rigger.”
* For those looking for Trump to modify his approach and look somewhat presidential for the next month: What are you smoking? He’s a scorpion. He’s a brand that without brashness and bigotry would lack a viable, deplorable following. It’s why he tweets at 3 a.m. to mock Alicia Machado.
* For all those disaffected Democrats who are looking at Libertarian or Green Party alternatives as a forum to express disgust with the Hobson’s choice for president, two words: Ralph Nader. Those 97,000 Florida votes won it, in effect, for George W. Bush in 2000. Also, recall that Barack Obama won the Sunshine State in 2012 by less than 75,000 votes–and the disparity between registered Democratic and Republican voters was far greater than it is today. The manifest reality: Electoral overreaction in the name of idealism, disillusionment or just protest–is, in 2016, counterproductive to America’s best interests.
* It’s especially important for Hillary Clinton to push for early voting. We all know, without saying it, that if this country suffers a major terrorist attack closer to the election, the Trump campaign would find a silver lining. It’s an electorate too easily scared and too prone to overreact.