The Week Republicans Finally Panicked About Trump

Susan Glasser: “Forty days before the midterm elections, Washington is increasingly consumed not by Trump’s endless antics so much as by the rapidly clarifying political reality of the predicament in which the President, deeply unpopular and trapped in an unwon war of his own choosing in the Middle East, has got himself and his party.”

“A reckoning—one far harsher than was expected, even a few months ago—now seems imminent.”