Poor John — Reduced To Applauding The Fact That Trump Prepared A Speech.

This is what Powerline — that once and former fiery brand of fearless right-margin blogging — has been reduced to:

“We like that our guy wrote some notes. And read them. Verbatim.”

Hilarious. And sad, for our Republic — and the future.

[This item is late because the host site (blog.com) has been on the fritz since Tuesday.]