Today is the day Ted Bundy became a good Uber driver

Remember that faraway time known as “yesterday,” when the DC press corpse immediately strapped on ye olde knee pads, because Donald Trump didn’t sound like a florid sociopath for about 45 minutes?

DANA BASH (CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT): But if you look at the big picture, this was remarkable from the president of the United States. This is a non-partisan — this is an important thing to note, and to applaud from an American standpoint — from a human standpoint. He is being the kind of leader that people need, at least in tone, today, and yesterday, in a tone that people need and want and yearn for in times of crisis and uncertainty.

…But big picture, the fact that the president has been, you know, convinced to be different — whether it was Chris Christie’s op-ed asking him to do it, whether it was Newt Gingrich sitting in Italy watching firsthand what’s happening, or his friends at Fox News who have changed their tone. You know, probably all the above is what happened. But it is so important to hear him strike that tone of calm, and of understanding of how incredibly dire this is.

Yes, truly remarkable!

The level of magical thinking among people like Bash (and I’m not bashing her in particular: she’s totally representative of her demographic) is higher than that found in a typical tent revival in rural Georgia.