



On the twentieth of August five endorsements are signed in one day — a Senate candidate in Nevada, a state senator in Michigan, three more behind them — and the same day the office publishes a single line reporting that something is trending on the platform that removed him. He reads it on paper, because paper is how he reads everything now. On the twenty-first the field in Cullman, Alabama is full before the doors open. Twenty-nine papers go out this week and twenty of them are about a country eight thousand miles away, but the one the crowd came for is the one he delivers standing up, in front of them, out loud.
Readers' Corner
Letters from the readership on Week 323. Pick a pen name — no account needed.
Opening the mailbag…