AND UNFORTUNATELY ALSO NOT THE ONION:  Elizabeth Warren calls for family separation fix in response to murder of Mollie Tibbetts.

ALSO NOT THE ONION: Museum Visitor Falls Into Giant Hole That Looks Like a Cartoonish Painting on the Floor.

NOT THE ONION:  Nabisco ‘Frees’ Its Animal Crackers After a PETA Protest.

AT AMAZON, bestsellers in Military History.

SALENA ZITO: Why Trump’s supporters won’t care about Cohen and Manafort’s convictions.

In the aftermath of Tuesday’s news that both former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and his lawyer Michael Cohen were found on the wrong side of the law in separate court cases, the question asked most frequently by the press, Democrats and “Never Trump” Republicans is, “Where do Trump voters go now?”
The answer is the same that it has always been since they first started asking it Nov. 9, 2016: With Trump.

This new conservative populist coalition is not the fluke the political class hoped it was. Donald Trump did not cause it, he is just the result of it, so no matter what he does, it continues. It is predicated on them, not him.

The coalition is a strike at not just tone deafness in both Congress and the White House but also high levels of incompetence, negligence and shoddy performance at agencies, as well as inept social services, a bloated and incompetent bureaucracy, endless wars and multinational agreements and treaties that don’t benefit average people.

These voters knew who Trump was going in, they knew he was a thrice-married, Playmate dating, Howard Stern regular who had the morals of an alley cat. They were willing to look past all of that because of how institutions had failed their communities for three consecutive presidencies.

Right now the value of Trump to the Trump voter is he is all that stands between them and handing the keys to Washington back over to the people inside Washington. That’s it. He’s their only option. You’ve got to pick the insiders or him.

So the question becomes: Can the Democrats pick someone who is Trump? Someone who just says, “I don’t trust anybody in Washington either. They all suck. The Democrats sucks, the Republicans suck and Trump’s a crook.”
If they could pick a Trump for their side, then Trump could have a problem. But as it stands we only really only have two parties; the party of the governing elite and the party of Trump.

That is why they stick with him.

I think this is right.

SO I GET AN AD THAT MICHAEL MCDONALD IS PERFORMING IN KNOXVILLE, and I’m almost certain that he died of a heart attack a couple of years back, but no. Have I jumped timelines again? Next you’ll be telling me that Keith Richards is still alive and Donald Trump is President.

STEWART BAKER: Thinking the unthinkable about responding to cyberattacks.

HEROISM: “John was the only American that was alive on [that] mountain top, and there was somebody fighting for an hour.”

OPEN THREAD: Make me proud.

HERMAN CAIN HAS NOT LOST HIS SENSE OF HUMOR.

HEY, WHO DOESN’T? Why FBI Directors Want to Be Autonomous and Unaccountable.

THE INSTAWIFE ASKS, Why Are More Women Leaving Medicine?

MARK STEYN: That Dress, Twenty Years On.

WHY ARE LEFTY-DOMINATED CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF ABUSE? Singer claims he was drugged and raped in 2010 by classical music power couple. “An up-and-coming baritone singer alleges he was drugged and violently raped in 2010 by two of opera/classical music’s shining stars, David Daniels and Scott Walters. Daniels, 52, the most famous countertenor in the world, has been a favorite of the Metropolitan Opera, while his now-husband Walters, 36, is a respected conductor. The couple is so highly regarded that they were married in 2014 by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.”

SARAH HOYT: To Raise Healthy Boys You Have To Like Men.

JUDGE REVERSES HIMSELF, SAYS OHIO STATE OFFICIALS CAN BE SUED FOR ANTI-MALE BIAS: The College Fix has the story.

AT AMAZON, save on Appliances.

Plus, summer savings in Home and Garden.

ELIZABETH WARREN SLAMS REAGAN: ‘Government Help Is “Terrifying?” Give Me a Break.’

Related: With the authorities having cleaned up all crime and corruption in the state of Illinois, mom investigated by Department of Children and Family Services for letting 8-year-old walk her dog alone.

REPORT: Big Bang Theory To End With Season 12.

WHY DOES THE LEFT HATE TOLKIEN?  Because they think centralized, overbearing power is just ducky.  They are not about to destroy that ring.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Man who cheated with 300 women after girlfriend gave him ‘infidelity pass’ claims it’s saved his relationship.

TOO MUCH TIME ON TWITTER? ‘Why I drink 100 units of alcohol a week.’

MARK ELLIS: Top Five 1980s One-Hit Wonders to Rock the Midterms.

Red Rider’s “Lunatic Fringe” really should have made the cut.

BECAUSE YOU CAN’T SPELL “CONTRARIANISM” WITHOUT “CONTRA:” Contra Pundits, Donald Trump Did Not Have a Bad Day Yesterday.