Donald Trump’s poll numbers are … not great, and Jamelle Bouie wonders what options the GOP has to limit the damage his candidacy may do to the party. “At this late stage, the only alternative left is the party’s nuclear option—ignoring its primary voters and dumping Trump from the ticket in a hail-Mary attempt to save its congressional majority,” Bouie writes, adding that this would be a huge gamble and probably won’t happen.
Seth Stevenson found a few Apprentice crew members who were willing to talk, off and on the record, about what it was like to work with Donald Trump. “What do they recall about Trump’s on-set behavior? It’s a lot like his campaign behavior,” Stevenson writes—in other words, misogynist, germophobic, and bizarrely manipulative.
Mark Joseph Stern interviewed Evan Wolfson, a longtime advocate for marriage equality who “had the rare pleasure of witnessing the culmination of his life’s work” last year, to see if he has any advice for gun-control activists. “I would tell them not to be despondent and not to ever say that you feel stuck or immobilized, or that it will never happen, or that we can’t make it work,” Wolfson said. “Every time you say that, you augment people’s sense of helplessness—and you give an excuse to those who don’t want progress to occur.”
Here’s a horror story: The state-mandated waiting period for abortions in North Carolina forced a mother of four to endure a full week of debilitating pain. Belle Boggs writes about Sonia Loureiro’s ordeal: “The experience had changed her, from someone who didn’t identify as pro-life or pro-choice, to someone who wanted to tell a painful personal story so others would know what they might one day face, too.”
Dana Stevens saw Finding Dory, the sequel to the old Pixar standard Finding Nemo, and pronounces it “delightful.” “Even at its silliest and most action-packed,” Stevens writes, “Finding Dory never loses sight of its emotional center: that deeply human (and, apparently, piscine) desire to understand where one came from and to reunite with the creatures one loves best.”
For fun: Please watch this (fake) Japanese Donald Trump commercial.
You will never be the same,
Rebecca
