From The Forward:

Do you ever get the impression that the Establishment is undergoing a nervous breakdown?

Here’s the Trump campaign’s press release announcing the 88 officers’ endorsement:

Major General Shachnow is the only Holocaust survivor to become a U.S. General. A 40-year veteran of the Army, Shachnow served with the Green Berets for 32 years. He was Commanding General, US Army Special Forces Command Airborne, Ft. Bragg and is the recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal. Rear Admiral Williams served as Commanding Officer of five organizations throughout his career and received the Legion of Merit. “He has the temperament to be commander-in-chief,” Major General Sid Shachnow stated.

Today 88 retired U.S. generals and admirals, including four 4-star and fourteen 3-star flag officers, signed an open letter endorsing Donald J. Trump for president. The letter was organized by Major General Sidney Shachnow and Rear Admiral Charles Williams. …

By the way, if we’re going to wander off into Minister Farrakhan-style numerological fever swamps, the number 88 means a lot more to Trump speechwriter Stephen Miller in the context of the Group of 88 leftist Duke professors who helped promote the hate hoax against the Duke lacrosse athletes. From Durham-in-Wonderland:

Praising Stephen Miller

TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2007

While their statement claimed to be “listening” to Duke students, the Group of 88 has shown little regard for what their school’s students think about the lacrosse case. …

The day before, Stephen Miller was even more direct, in a prescient Chronicle column:

Apparently, the lack of evidence was not a factor.

Friday, a full-page ad ran in the paper repeating the charge that the situation would be handled differently were the accused not a bunch of white lacrosse players. This absurd ad, which levied the untrue and indefensible charge that Duke is filled with racists, was officially endorsed by 20 of our academic departments and institutes and about 90 individual professors . . .

It is the hope of many activists, protesters and condemners to make a case not only for the excoriation of the lacrosse team, but also for sweeping social reform to address what they see as profound racial inequity.

Instead, they make a very different case—one for protecting, at all costs, our system of justice from the passions and prejudices of the people.

Miller went on from this column to defend due process and the players’ presumption of innocence in several national media appearances over the spring.

In contrast to Davidson’s claim of a vast-right wing conspiracy to use the ad to “make academics and liberals look ridiculous and uncaring,” I discovered the statement by “listening” to Duke students.

At the time, I knew no one on the Duke lacrosse team. Nor did I know any family member of a lacrosse player, or friend of a lacrosse player. I was reading the Chronicle every day to get a sense of campus attitudes; and after seeing Miller’s column and the follow-up editorial, I found the ad on the African-American Studies website and encountered its rush-to-judgment language myself.

In yesterday’s Chronicle, 293 days after he first wrote about the Group of 88, Miller returned to the topic.

He lamented how the lacrosse scandal has exposed a “shameful reality” that “while there are many good, decent and commendable professors on our campus, there are also a number of professors that are unethical, unbalanced and out of control.”