世界少了空气是小事，没了淳朴（Donald Trump），大家主心骨没了，那就是日月无光。
百忙之中，淳朴跟纽约时报专栏作家稻茉芸（Maureen Dowd）通了电话，心善的淳朴说奥巴马是好总统，（总统夫人）蜜萧在民主党党代会发言很棒，克林顿（Hillary Clinton）女儿巧喜跟自己女儿伊万卡是好友：
Obama gave a good speech but not nearly as good as the press would have you believe. Whether it’s good or bad, the press will say it’s fantastic. In many ways, I like Obama. It’s hard to define. There’s something about him I do like. I’m embarrassed to admit it. I give him a lot of credit. It’s very unique and very hard to do and I give him tremendous credit. He became a two-term president of the United States. He’s got some quality goingShe gave a very good speechI thought Chelsea was excellent. I thought she was very good. She’s very friendly with Ivanka. They like each other and they should continue to be friends. My children were the stars of my convention
说起跟另外一个富翁布隆伯格的怨恨，布隆伯格在民主党党代会上大骂淳朴，淳朴说“恨不得痛揍他们”：
I was gonna hit one guy in particular, a very little guy
美国大亨科赫兄弟（Koch Brothers），出了名的又黑又右，反劳工反政府是数一数二的，但淳朴有些主张很左，素为科赫兄弟痛恨，几个月前甚至说要支持克林顿，可见他们恨得。他们有个联络会，极右大亨应邀才能参加，关起门来专门商讨如何用钱打通阎王殿的大门。最近党内有人敦促他们跟淳朴和解，共同对付克林顿和民主党，不过他们不为所动。近日联络会开会，大概有人觉得淳朴有可能被邀，问了一下，其实人家没有邀请。不过淳朴那受得了：
As 400 wealthy conservative donors in the Charles and David Koch network gathered at a luxury resort at the base of the Rocky Mountains here, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump took to his normal form of communication, Twitter, to blast the activist brothers, saying he "turned down" a meeting request with themDonald J. Trump ? @realDonaldTrump
I turned down a meeting with Charles and David Koch. Much better for them to meet with the puppets of politics, they will do much better!
淳朴本色。
这并不影响淳朴声明自己最具总统气质：
Donald Trump Says He Has One of the 'Best Temperaments' of Any Presidential Candidate
然而主流媒体也够黑心，不停地挖料，诋毁淳朴，哥伦比亚广播公司说梅兰妮不老实，虚报文凭，大学没毕业却号称建筑业本科，最后只好撤了：
CBS News alleges that Melania Trump didn't graduate from the school with a degree, according to the university’s public records
淳朴只好也不客气了，说更克林顿客气了一会儿，休战完了，动真刀真枪的时候到了：
"I'm starting to agree with you, frankly," he said. "No more Mr. Nice Guy."
民主党党代会上一群大腕高调发言，好评如潮，但尽得风光的是一个穆斯林老爸，儿子在伊拉克殉国。他的发言网上传疯了：
《美政机要》（Politico）Seven Minutes That Shook the Convention
视频：
的确他是“异族”，“危险的穆斯林”，但是殉职军人家属，，烈属，美国是第一类，没人能得罪；的确他质疑淳朴，质疑淳朴没读过宪法，没为国牺牲过，但也不能得罪。可是普爷爷受不了：
I’ve Made a Lot of Sacrifices
淳朴进一步暗示老妈没开口，是伊斯兰教义禁止。这没脑子没的。
是的，纯粉里有觉得痛快的，但至于的吗？
淳朴随后还是忍不住，话多，如“咱贡献可大了，带来了成千上万的工作职位”，“我在退伍军人中的声望如日中天”，等等，八卦激进媒体没放过，继续恶毒攻击：
恶心。
帝国气派
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《华尔街日报社论》To the Go-Along Republicans
Memo to Paul Ryan: Trump’s problem is his character, not his ‘ideas.’
Bret Stephens
There’s an old saying that in politics there are no permanent victories—and no permanent defeats. Barry Goldwater was crushed in 1964 but the ideas that animated his candidacy found new life in the Reagan Revolution of 1980. Bill Clinton declared the era of big government over in 1996 and 14 years later we got ObamaCare.
The inevitable turning of the policy wheel should comfort conservatives unnerved by the prospect of a Hillary Clinton presidency. Liberals overreach. Statist solutions fail. Voters tire of one-party rule. To govern is to own, and the next president will own the next recession, the next foreign-policy fiasco, the next Veterans Affairs scandal. If Mrs. Clinton is everything Republicans say she is—an opportunistic, dishonest, incompetent left-wing ideologue—they can at least look forward to a one-term presidency. I know I do.
But to say there are no permanent victories or defeats in politics doesn’t mean there is no permanent dishonor. Huey Long, Charles Coughlin, Alger Hiss, Joe McCarthy and Bull Connor are the foul names of America’s 20th century, and always will be. And those who supported and excused them will always be tainted by association.
This is where Republicans now find themselves with their presidential nominee. Of all of Donald Trump’s vile irruptions—about Sen. John McCain’s military record, or reporter Serge Kovaleski’s physical handicap, or Judge Gonzalo Curiel’s judicial fitness—his casual smear of Ghazala Khan is perhaps the vilest.
This isn’t simply because Mrs. Khan is a bereaved mother. Bereavement alone does not place someone above criticism, especially when it comes to political differences. Nor is it because Mrs. Khan’s son, U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, died heroically to protect his troops in Iraq. The special deference given to Gold Star parents is, at bottom, a social convention.
No: What makes Mr. Trump’s remarks so foul is their undisguised sadism. He took a woman too heartbroken and anxious to speak of her dead son before an audience of millions and painted a target on her. He treated her silence as evidence that she was either a dolt or a stooge. He degraded her. “She was standing there. She had nothing to say,” Mr. Trump told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “She probably, maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say. You tell me.”
In this comment there was the full unmasking of Mr. Trump, in case he needed further unmasking. He has, as Humayun’s father Khizr put it, a “black soul.” His problem isn’t a lack of normal propriety but the absence of basic human decency. He is morally unfit for any office, high or low.
This is the point that needs to dawn—and dawn soon—on Republican officeholders who pretend to endorse Mr. Trump while also pretending, via wink-and-nod, that they do not. Paul Ryan has tried to walk this razor’s edge by stressing how much he disagrees with Mr. Trump’s “ideas.” On Sunday the speaker issued a flabby statement extolling the Khan family’s sacrifice and denouncing religious tests for immigrants without mentioning Mr. Trump by name.
Mr. Ryan is doing his personal reputation and his party’s fortunes no favors with these evasions. The central issue in this election isn’t Mr. Trump’s ideas, such as they are. It’s his character, such as it is. The sin, in this case, is the sinner.
It will not do for Republicans to say they denounce Mr. Trump’s personal slanders; his nativism and protectionism and isolationism; his mendacity and meanness and crassness; his disdain for constitutional protections—and still campaign for his election. There is no redemption in saying you went along with it, but only halfway; that with Mr. Trump you maintained technical virginity. To lie down with him is to wake up with him. It’s as simple as that.
That’s a thought that ought to frighten Republicans. The Khan slander was not Mr. Trump’s first and will not be his last or worst. As one wag on Twitter put it, the man always finds a new bottom. Nor are we likely done with new disclosures about Mr. Trump’s business practices and associations. Conservative die-hards may try to hold fast to the excuse that Hillary Clinton was, is, and always will be “worse,” but the argument can’t be sustained indefinitely. Mrs. Clinton is not the apotheosis of evil. She may be a corner-cutter and a liar, and she’ll almost surely appoint liberals to the Supreme Court. But at least she’s not a sociopath.
Politics is mostly the business of maintaining popularity in the here-and-now. Not always. Come January, Mrs. Clinton will likely be president. Whether there is a GOP that can still lay a claim to moral and political respectability is another question. Mr. Ryan and other Go-Along Republicans should treat the Khan episode as their last best hope to preserve political reputations they have worked so hard to build.
