The Weekly Sift

I’m somewhat ashamed to admit that both featured posts this week have “Trump” in the title.

I only meant to write one: “Can Trump Steal Georgia?” There’s a been a lot of talk these last two weeks about changes Trumpists on the Georgia State Election Board have made in the rules governing local election boards, and whether these changes might allow a 2020-on-steroids election crisis should Harris get more votes than Trump in Georgia. Short version: That’s clearly what Trump has in mind, but it’s probably not going to work. Either the courts or Governor Kemp should take care of it.

But then as the week went on and I compiled notes for the weekly summary, I noticed something: There was an outrageous new Trump story every single day, starting with bringing his campaign team to Arlington National Cemetery on Monday. This wasn’t some unified scandal that kept building through the week (though the Arlington thing did that), it was some totally new batshit crazy thing each day.

By Saturday, my single Trump-did-some-crazy-stuff entry in the weekly summary had broken through its levees and was threatening to wipe out the flood plain. So I turned it into a separate article “A Week in Trump’s Declining Spiral”. It should post before 9 EDT, with the Georgia article appearing by 10.

With the flood of Trump news diverted into the featured posts, the weekly summary should be short this week, and come out around noon.