THE ACLU HAS JUST BECOME A DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUPER-PAC: The ACLU Sponsors an Ad Comparing Brett Kavanaugh to Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein: Such nakedly political propaganda is beneath the civil liberties organization. This may be an effort — part of Larry Tribe’s strategy described here — to make Kavanaugh recuse himself from all sorts of cases once confirmed. Prediction: It won’t work. See, e.g., Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

But it’s another example of Trump’s miraculous ability to take once-respected institutions and reveal them as the festering, wormy pustules of partisan corruption they’ve become.