++Nancy LeTourneau at WashingtonMonthly wrote yesterday a thoughtful piece on how President Obama through "his ruthless strategy of reconciliation" moved the political discussion in this country to the left. She quotes Richard Wolfe's analysis that the winner of this elect already is President Obama. Her extensive quotes from Wolfe are worth reading.
++Andrew Sullivan in one of his last posts of the Democratic Convention mused that one of Obama's legacies may well be the destruction of the Republican Party.
++LeTourneau hints at this with her account of how Obama forced the Republicans in their position of refusing to compromise during his tenure boxing them into a position of policy nihilism, which produced Donald Trump. The Republican panic today is very real. They worry about losing even the House but the Washington Post reassures them that the DNC blundered in that regard by not anticipating how truly bad Trump is.
++David Atkins at the Washington Monthly tells us how bad Trump's organization is and raises the question of where did all those millions go because they aren't in advertising or in organizational structure. His expenditures for July would have produced different results from what we see on the ground.
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