"'You just can’t teach talent and over the past month, JD has been proving all the haters wrong on a daily basis,' Donald Trump Jr., who tirelessly advocated for Trump to pick Vance, said in a text message to The Bulwark." thebulwark.com/p/jd-vance-has…

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"Rubin, Pool, and Johnson claim that they are “victims”—their word—in this story. Okay. I accept that. But when someone is a victim of a scheme, he does not usually end up with a pile of money." Today's Triad: thebulwark.com/p/the-tenet-me…

Bulwark contributor and lawyer Kimberly Wehle discusses her new book on the pardon power. Plus Israel/Gaza, campus protests redux, and Tucker Carlson "Just asking questions" about Holocaust denialism. The latest episode of Beg to Differ with Mona Charen: thebulwark.com/p/tucker-carls…

"Trump has picked up plenty of new knowledge—his brain is swimming with esoterica about the various times he felt badly treated by his enemies in Washington or the media—but in basic matters of policy he’s still just out there winging it." thebulwark.com/p/grading-trum…

"John Zmirak notes that corporatist ideas played a role in shaping West Germany after the Second World War. He is not incorrect, but by the same token one might note that the Soviet Union promised universal healthcare and Hitler built the Autobahn." thebulwark.com/p/influence-au…

The Trump campaign sees Vance as an asset in a base turnout election, where the objective is to increase the number of men, especially white men in swing states, who go to the polls. thebulwark.com/p/jd-vance-has…

"We are a people largely untethered from reality. People who live in lake houses and fly for vacations and tell themselves that it’s American Carnage are not going to be capable of democratic self-governance when actual economic pain comes." thebulwark.com/p/american-car…

"As the national security analyst Daniel Drezner put it in the title of his own book, Trump was the 'toddler in chief.' In a second term, should it come to pass, Trump has made it plain that there will be no grownups in the room." thebulwark.com/p/mcmaster-wor…

"It also seems to me that you should find Carlson especially objectionable if, like the anti-anti-Carlson crowd, you agree with some of his culture-war points." thebulwark.com/p/you-do-not-u…

"While these are devastating events, they are not extraordinary ones. This is not a series of unique tragedies but an epidemic. We shouldn’t treat it as otherworldly or unimaginable because it’s not." Sam Stein: thebulwark.com/p/stop-calling…

"Put it all together and you have a portrait of guys who aren’t just simple-minded dupes. They aren’t merely amoral profiteers, either—rogues only in it for a buck. They’re collaborators with the Putin regime." thebulwark.com/p/the-tenet-me…

"As the discussion went on, she acknowledged that 'lately she’s been a little bit more eloquent in her speaking.' That’s what often happens when a VP emerges from the president’s shadow. The impression that she’s not up to the job begins to fade away." thebulwark.com/p/is-america-r…

Trumpism needs to be stopped from taking power. Then, we can have all the other debates. A vote for Harris is a vote to give normal a chance. thebulwark.com/p/yes-conserva…

"The fact that a majority of swing state voters think Trump is 'too extreme'—as they do in this poll—suggests he is beatable. The fact that Harris has an edge of ten percentage points in not being 'too extreme'—suggests that she can beat him." thebulwark.com/p/grading-trum…

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is less a descendant of Beetlejuice than Batman. It doesn’t exist to continue the story of the Deetz family or chronicle the exploits of the Ghost with the Most. It exists to get people thirsty for nostalgia to pony up. Sonny Bunch: thebulwark.com/p/in-review-be…

"To treat school shootings as either unimaginable events or failures of school fortification also elides how much of the damage they cause is outside the school, and how it lingers far longer than the media’s gaze." thebulwark.com/p/stop-calling…

"Will the revelation that the Russian government was manipulating them because of their support for Russia and Donald Trump cause Rubin, Pool, and Johnson to reconsider their support for Russia and/or Donald Trump?" thebulwark.com/p/the-tenet-me…

"That ideas like these have influence with a man who might be placed a heartbeat from the presidency is one more piece of evidence, if more were needed, of the threat today’s Republican party poses to so much of what is unique and great about America." thebulwark.com/p/influence-au…

As a measure of the trust that Vance has earned from Trump, a month ago, after a few joint rallies, the campaign sent the senator out on his own to tour the swing states to cover as much ground as possible. thebulwark.com/p/jd-vance-has…