ICYMI alert: yet another Republican mourning-piece in today’s NYT - from a GOP consultant *finally* realizing the Party’s abandonment of any sort of principle in favor of racism-driven Trumpism. Not really “news” - well, not to us here anyway - but succinct, anyway. Nut graf:

How did this happen? How do you abandon deeply held beliefs about character, personal responsibility, foreign policy and the national debt in a matter of months? You don’t. The obvious answer is those beliefs weren’t deeply held. What others and I thought were bedrock values turned out to be mere marketing slogans easily replaced. I feel like the guy working for Bernie Madoff who thought they were actually beating the market.

h/t LGM