Monday News: Dumpster Fire (aka, Trump Campaign) Moves to Cleveland; Krugman Rips Media “Both Sides” False Equivalency

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, July 18.

• 141 Things Donald Trump Has Said and Done That Make Him Unfit to Be President (“How many times has Donald Trump disqualified himself from holding the most powerful job in the world? You be the judge.”)
• At Least 3 Police Officers Shot and Killed in Baton Rouge (Horrible.)
• Turkish purges spread to police forces in the wake of quashed coup
• ‘Make America Great Again’ is not a policy. It’s an exercise in mass psychology. (“To peddle hatred instead of real plans is to skirt the central political questions of our time.”)
• GOP, RIP? (“By making Trump their standard-bearer, Republicans are risking much more than the 2016 election.”)
• At their convention, Republicans will overlook Trump’s foreign policy incompetence
• Look out! Donald Trump promises to run the country the way he runs his business (“If he runs the country the way he runs his empire, we’re in trouble.”)
• 5 questions and story lines to follow as the Republican Convention unfolds in Cleveland (“Protests, renegade delegates and #NeverTrump: This week, the GOP’s corrosive dysfunction will be on full display”)
• Wow, Hispanics loathe Donald Trump. Like, a lot. But enough to vote?
• Never Trump plots last stand at Cleveland convention
• Paul Krugman: Both Sides Now? (“…voters don’t fully appreciate [Trump’s] awfulness. And the reason is that too much of the news media still can’t break with bothsidesism — the almost pathological determination to portray politicians and their programs as being equally good or equally bad, no matter how ludicrous that pretense becomes.”)
• 3 polls: Clinton maintains advantage over Trump
• Trump panic drives progressives toward Clinton (“At Netroots Nation, there was little love for Hillary but plenty of concern about the need to defeat the presumptive GOP nominee.”)
• Cleveland Police Ask For Emergency Suspension Of Open Carry Laws During Republican Convention
• Donald Trump’s answer on Mike Pence’s Iraq vote is really something
• NBC Gives Glenn Beck A Platform To Re-Mainstream Himself (The corporate media continues to be a cesspool.)
• Tim Kaine as vice president? That would leave a key opening in the Senate. (Yet again, the Post figures this out months after the rest of us do.)
• Right-Wing Media’s Response To Police Deaths In Baton Rouge: Blame Obama (Seriously, they’d somehow blame Obama if he singlehanedly cured cancer.)
• Trump literally tells Pence ‘you could say yes’ on John McCain question
• Virginia delegates heading to Cleveland seeking unity at Republican National Convention
• Battle over felons’ voting heads to Virginia Supreme Court
• Virginia university presidents well paid, but not in top 10
• Warner makes his way through the Valley listening to folks’ concerns
• McCracken backs off legal action over Roanoke County School Board seat
• Week starts and ends hot and humid; Chance of storms late today