Main article: “Trump at the Garden: A Closing Carnival of Grievances, Misogyny and Racism. The inflammatory rally was a capstone for an increasingly aggrieved campaign for Donald Trump, whose rhetoric has grown darker and more menacing.“

#2: “Inside the Movement Behind Trump’s Election Lies”

#3: “Far-Right Figures Escalate Talk of Retribution and Election Subversion“

A ways down the page we see, “A Trump Rally Speaker Trashed Puerto Ricans. Harris Reached Out to Them.” Added: I didn’t read the piece, but the headline was misleading and deliberately so. The “speaker” was a comedian, and he was doing a routines. Ah. So the idea is that his jokes were meant seriously, and because it was a Trump rally, Trump endorsing the jokes as if they were serious positions.

Now for the columns:

• The weekly love-fest between progressive shill Gail Collins and periodic conservative Bret Stephens, a NeverTrumper, is headlined, “Crazy Is Beginning to Sound Like an Understatement.”
• Someone dug up Anita Hill to issue a guest essay, “The Smearing of Kamala Harris.” The Times’ party is calling Donald Trump Hitler, but Harris is being smeared. Interesting. How, Anita? “It’s not easy to remain calm and collected in the glare of intense public scrutiny, especially when the opposition is set on denying your integrity, competence and accomplishments. But call it grace, poise or dignity, Kamala Harris has managed to make a positive case for her candidacy every day since President Biden endorsed her to take his place on the Democratic ticket.”

What color is the sky on your planet, Anita?

• Frank Bruni joins in with “Onstage in New York, Trump Gazes Lovingly at his Reflection.”

• Here’s my favorite line in “The Real Reasons the G.O.P. Is Spending Millions on Anti-Trans Ads”: “This ad draws on an A.C.L.U. questionnaire that Kamala Harris filled out in 2019 when she was running for president. Clearly, they’re trying to use her own words from five years ago against her.”

Wow, those Republicans will stoop to anything. Imagine: using a candidate’s words from five years ago against her…

• “I Know What America’s Leading C.E.O.s Really Think of Donald Trump” It’s no mystery why Big Business isn’t crazy about Trump, though the author, a Yale professor, aka. Democrat and progressive shill, never mentions the biggest reason: illegal immigration allows many of the biggest corporations to pay low wages that American citizens won’t tolerate.

• The Times Editorial Board lets its assorted progressives explain their votes. Mara Gay is voting for Harris is part to support Black Lives Matter. She has apparently been in a cave the past year. Serge Schmemann writes, dishonestly, “The result of this November’s election could determine whether the embattled people of Ukraine and in the Middle East, and citizens of our many other allies around the world can continue to believe in American steadfastness and diplomacy.” Harris has made it clear that she wants to force a ceasefire on Israel, ensuring more terrorist attacks. Biden’s snap retreat from Afghanistan demonstrated how much America could be trusted by allies. Farah Stockman is voting for Harris because she really liked the inflation exploding “Inflation Reduction Act.” David Firestone is voting for Harris because he likes the federal government giving money to community colleges.  Jesse Wegman is voting Democrat because he thinks banning convicted felons from voting is “racist.” Of course, that prohibition has arguments pro and con that are reasonable, but calling it racist suggests that only blacks are felons, which of course he doesn’t believe.  He just believes that calling conservative positions “racist” works. Columnist Michelle Cottle believes that abortion is the most important matter Americans should care about, and uses all of the euphemisms—choice, reproductive rights, bodily autonomy, “control over their own bodies,” “women’s reproductive decisions” She even stoops to the “men wouldn’t tolerate being treated this way” trope. Naturally, she’s voting for Harris. Brent Staples, who is black, is voting for Democrats because Republicans are racists. Binyamin Appelbaum, who can’t spell his first name, believes that Trump is “a man who treats women with contempt, who has no interest in the public interest, who wants to watch the world burn.” Jeneen Interlandi says Republicans “dream” of cutting Medicaid.

Not one staffer could be found who would say he or she was voting for Donald Trump. Diversity!

• Finally, as comic relief, we have a guest column from James Carville, “Three Reasons I’m Certain Kamala Harris Will Win.” Here are the three: First, Trump lost in 2020, and the GOP didn’t win as decisively as everyone expected in 2022. Verdict: Disingenuous.Without the stupid pandemic lock-down that crashed the economy, Trump would have been re-elected handily. Second, Harris is spending more money. Verdict: Carville’s client Hillary outspent Trump in 2016 too. Of course a political consultant thinks you can buy elections; that’s how they exist. More important than having money is having a competent candidate, which the Democrats do not have. Third, and my favorite, “It’s just a feeling.” Then he lists current Axis talking points, like saying Trump is “cancelling interview”s after he just did a three-hour interview with the most popular podcaster in the country.

I have the feeling that James Carville is past his pull-date.