Pay Attention to Trump’s Every Cruel and Crazy Syllable

In the wake of Joe Biden’s debate performance last month, it’s easy to lose sight of Donald Trump’s marked surge in extremism, vindictive cruelty, and contempt for democracy. The presumptive Republican nominee has also demonstrated a marked decline in mental acuity more alarming than Biden’s slowness during the debate.

Let’s look at just a few recent examples.

1) Trump wants to make poor migrants fight each other for sport. At a meeting with so-called Christian conservatives in Washington...