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Between the mysterious Camp David meeting and this, I am 'hmmm'ing a lot. This language is very specific.

He is their unfiltered id. It emboldens them, consciously or unconsciously, and allows them to project their fear and resentment over a changing world and fading racial dominance in America onto a figure who can externalize all their negative emotions and act to quench them. They can all say they didn't know what he really meant or how far he'd go, that they're not as extreme as him, but on some level they knew and accepted it because their anxiety and fear about the loss of white dominance and the social mores of the past meant more to them than common decency. Like Jimmy Kimmel said the other night many of them know they were wrong on some level, which is why they deflect or claim they didn't know or make excuses - like the crying woman on Fox did when she broke down after her panel didn't let her get away with a false equivalence. Some will come to grips with it on some wavelength, as Trump's falling polls show. Others never will.

Failing Cleveland ABANDONS Trump! SAD!

Ian Buchanan talks about TP.

This is the passive racism we keep talking about - how when it's confronted or threatened people react with pure emotion (or in the case of the nationalist marchers in Charlottesville, fury and radicalization). There is a large swath of white America which cannot deal with this being faced up to without melting down.

No, all Trump cares about is what everyone thinks of him. That's why he never apologizes. It would look weak.

Sounds like Fake News!

I'm always right! Do I think it'll happen this fast, no - but I was wrong about the councils lasting til Friday. Meanwhile, since we've been dissecting the white supremacist kids a lot, check this out:

One more thing before I really do go, again from Trump's ex-biographer, Tony Schwartz:

Even for him, it's so pathetic - "firing" them all before they can all quit. And it hurts him most for the reason Zeke Miller mentions. I thought they wouldn't all go til Friday.

I gotta take a shower so y'all take over the updates and accompanying '90s R&B tracks to go with the resignations as necessary. Find some Anita Baker! ETA: Damn! I can't go away for a minute! Before my shower: "You can't all quit, I'm firing you!"

I agree. To that point, I said something else elsewhere today when someone called Obama's eight years "a pyrrhic victory," which I don't agree with. I said a version of something this last night here as well, but I still wanted to add this:

Fox & Friends segment goes horribly awry: Fox's black pundits go rogue and break down as Abby Huntsman lamely attempts to pivot to the issue of "the historical statues" in Charlottesville. This is worth a watch, because however pathetic I find it that they're on the Fox News payroll I do feel for and believe these two. Nicolle Wallace says Trump has disgraced the country. Don Lemon doubles down.