Readers may not be aware that West Virginia’s Trump Party struck again on Monday:

It's happening. They're already starting to lay the groundwork for not certifying the election results.

"... the State of West Virginia will not recognize an election of a candidate for President during the 2024 election cycle if the Attorney General of West Virginia or the…

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) October 7, 2024

The action received national coverage -- given its anti-democratic message, it should have. Today, the Wheeling Intelligencer’s editorial criticized it:

We all want free and fair elections, but until there is real evidence that election fraud or interference is taking place — and right now, there’s not — pushing to involve state government in the process at any level may be the most irresponsible idea to come about.

Well-stated.

Additionally, from today’s Erick Erickson syndicated column warning that the “buyer beware of Trump agenda”:

The Trump agenda has much more to offer conservatives and people of faith than the Harris agenda. But buyer beware. The future of the GOP looks too much like Walter Mondale's vision for America, and Americans rejected that in a landslide once.

Walter Mondale!? Erickson is comparing Trump's agenda to that of the liberal Democrat who ran against Reagan in 1984? How far-out there is Erickson that he views Trump's GOP and Mondale's policies* as similar? Okay, I give up -- why is Erickson given space in any newspaper?

*Walter Mondale is easily the most liberal presidential candidate in my lifetime while Trump is the most far-right. Not only are they not in the same time zone; they're probably not even on the same planet.