Trump’s rambling, largely incoherent two hours with Elon Musk on X (Twitter) Monday did nothing to extend his reach beyond the increasingly fringe-like cultists who still insist he can do no wrong.

      Happily,  while the numbers have grown overall in the last decade among those sorts, that is no longer the case, and Trump’s behavior now is helping to shrink them significantly. Trump has lost his edge, plain and simple, and no one on his side has figured out what to do about it. 

      Eugene Robinson’ s commentary in today’s Washington Post, entitled, “Dazed and Confused on the Campaign Trail,” lays out how “genuinely bizarre” things have become for Trump now. Above and beyond “the falsehoods and distortions we’ve become accustomed to,” Robinson writes, there is “Trump’s transparently false and really strange Truth Social post on Sunday that claimed ‘there was nobody there’ at a rally Harris and Walz held last week.” He adds, “This kind of paranoid fantasy-based nonsense” is evidence of Trump’s “lying as a business model,” and on. There’s abundantly more.

       All this is in contrast to the fabulous and tireless job the Harris-Walz team has been undertaking in this new world that has changed so much in just the last couple of weeks. Don’t forget, it was just on July 21 that Biden withdrew and everything changed.