assault on american-democratic legitimacy on all frontals. it is being engineered in part by the discredited loser, whose thoughts are so lame, so boring, so basic, that he shut down his blog after less than a month because no one would read it. of course, why would they? trump ordered his team, tuesday, to put the blog out of its misery, advisers said. and yet, in the same way that, say, cult members might follow a self-described profit who seems like an obvious crank to outsiders. the people inside the movement are true believers. and that's where we are, right now. except, the movement is one of two of america's two major political parties. one-half of the viable-political coalitions we have. according to multiple reports, donald trump believes he will be, quote, reinstated as president by august. that is, of course, flatly ludicrous. it is not that different from saying that the world will end on august 1st. or that i will turn into a dragon on father's day.