Bob Woodward has put out a new audiobook, The Trump Tapes . It gives you open access to the former president's mind in a way that little else that is now out there can do. Unfortunately, this is not yet a historical matter. A big chunk of the electorate looks to Donald Trump as its champion against tyranny, and believes that he is playing some version of multi-dimensional chess. My own guess is that the big chunk will not be big enough to make him President again. Even his Republican flunkies are unlikely to sign up for another ride, and some of them -- his former Vice President chief among them -- have been candid about that. Of course there is something about becoming the potential lynchee that may well have turned Pence against a lynch mob of which he had once been fond. Together with the Democratic Party in this though in little else, he and others similarly situated will likely prevent a re-run, whatever happens in next week's vote. Yet Trump will remain a force, and h