America has overdosed on Trump

Also: the cruel cost of Trump's child-separation policy, and an unfair comparison from The Bulwark's Charlie Sykes.

The other day, my son told me his dream job is to be a chocolate taster, where you get to eat chocolate all day, every day. I responded that after a couple of days, he’d never want to eat, smell or even see a piece of chocolate ever again.

In 2016, Americans decided that they wanted political junk food. Well, a plurality of Americans. Actually not even that, but enough Americans to put Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

After four years of endless drama, it looks like American voters have thoroughly had enough. Joe Biden’s town hall event last week beat Trump in the ratings - despite the latter appearing on three channels, instead of just one - and now it looks like Biden is eating into Trump’s social media advantage.

Politico’s Tim Alberta thinks Trump fatigue has set in:

As I wrote last week in a dispatch from Arizona, sometimes you hear a voter say something “so basic, so one-dimensional, that you’re inclined to dismiss it until you hear it for the thousandth time.” That’s the story …