MELTDOWN: SEAN HANNITY ATTACKS WSJ’S BRET STEPHENS IN PROFANITY-LACED TWITTER RANT.

Needless to say, given Hannity’s role as a Trump surrogate, this is yet another bad sign for the Trump campaign, particularly given that it’s still early August. Most presidential candidates and their surrogates wait until closer to the election when it’s blindingly obvious things are going haywire before entering into Chernobyl mode. Even John McCain’s staffers didn’t lose their lunch until late September of 2008. Perhaps the nearest analogy in recent memory to Team Trump’s myriad self-inflicted wounds is John Kerry’s strange midnight Ohio rally early in September of 2004. Responding to the last day of the GOP convention, Kerry (who by the way, served in Vietnam*) fronted what the late Bob Novak described as an “anesthetized” crowd, and tore into Bush and Cheney’s Vietnam-era record, even after the Swift Vets and Kerry’s “Christmas in Cambodia” debacle were wreaking havoc on his own campaign.

Yes, there’s still time for Trump to get it together, particularly facing off against a candidate whose negatives are as bad as his own, but as Jonah Goldberg writes in his latest G-File, this is the equivalent of “Waiting for the Pivot at the End of the Universe.”