Last week he debuted new talking points, saying that this will be an election about “Kavanaugh, caravans, law and order and common sense.”

First, the defense and championing of Justice Brett Kavanaugh after publicly attacking, discrediting and diminishing the women who accused him of sexual assault is to me a clear expression of misogyny. Trump has a habit of not believing the women who accuse powerful men of sexual assault, a position that probably comes naturally to him because he was accused himself.

Second, Trump is trying desperately to elevate immigration as a burning issue again, focusing his fire on a caravan of immigrants from Central America plodding northward toward the U.S.

This is an easy target for Trump and his base because it encapsulates a sentiment without expressly articulating it: America is being invaded and overrun by people who are not white and not European, which risks the maintenance of American heritage, which is white heritage. White people’s control of this country is in danger and under assault and must be defended and protected at all costs.

But rather than ever using words like white supremacy and white nationalism, he uses proxies, like law and order, border walls and infestation.

And he now wants to cast liberals and Democrats as mobs, saying Democrats produce mobs while Republicans produce jobs.

Well, count me among the mob, if that means people who stand in opposition to Trump’s degradation of the country in all ways. If the mob stands up for women and stands up to the National Rifle Association, I want in. If the mob hates corruption and loves the increasing diversity of this country, then it is for me. If the mob finds it abhorrent that during the same week that it became clear that a Washington Post columnist had been killed in a Saudi Arabian consulate, Trump praised an American politician who assaulted a journalist, then yes, yes, yes to the mob.