9 September—If you listen to National Public Radio (popularly known as left-wing radio), you’ve been hearing of late that the correspondents and news readers no longer refer simply to “climate change”; now it’s invariably “human-caused climate change,” “man-made global warming,” or something to that effect. Because alarmist consensus rather than substantive scientific proof is where it’s at.

Anyway, on this morning’s NPR “Morning Edition,” Democrat and Republican operatives were interviewed mostly about tomorrow night’s mock debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. The most interesting take-out from the interview was the Republican operative’s assertion, after the interviewer brought up Trump’s boast that he’d be a dictator on his first day in office (should he be re-elected, of course) that the bugger may bluster away to his heart’s content, but when he mouths off about anything he’s speaking for himself, not the campaign.

Those weren’t the operative’s exact words, but they’re close. What happened to campaigns reflecting candidates and candidates reflecting campaigns?

In all events, her meaning is clear: While no one can stop Trump from being Trump for badder or worse, the GOP establishment may not agree with or approve of everything he says. But her implication isn’t as clear: The GOP establishment may not want Trump to do everything he promises (or threatens) and may not—just may not—give him his way.

Yeah, sure. Dream on. Even if in this election it really is the platform, not the person (a crock to begin with), judging by the way pusillanimously obeisant self-serving Republican politicians have kowtowed to and for Trump since 2016, it’s hard to believe they’d suddenly grow the principles and testicles to do the right thing and displease their messiah. It’s just not in their nature.

Sunday morning, on left-wing news (of course), someone or other, obviously coming from the left, observed that Donald Trump was an outlier, in the sense of an eccentric outsider in Republican politics. And then he threw in a great pun: Trump is always out lying.

But what politician isn’t?