What can salvage a depressing week?

Donald Trump: Fights with and mocks the grieving parents of a war hero. Says a debate schedule conflict with football games means the election is rigged. Undermines Republican leaders up for reelection. Etc., etc.

Hillary Clinton: Lied about how she had lied when talking with grieving parents following her 2012 fatal Benghazi blunders. Lied about the FBI findings concerning her private (now very public) illegal use of an email server. Refused to comment on an investigation showing she approved technology transfers that will aid the Russian military and facilitated investments in that effort by those who also contributed to the Clinton Foundation. Still hasn’t commented on WORLD’s reporting that influence from Clinton Foundation donors led the Clinton State Department to thwart efforts to combat Boko Haram.

Much of the press focuses on Trump’s foolish comments rather than Clinton’s lies and manipulations. Trump deserves the bad press he’s getting, but evenhanded editors could and should pair reports on Trump’s words with reports on Clinton’s actions. They won’t.

Peggy Noonan offers an equally dire prediction regarding Trump in her Wall Street Journal column today: “It’s not that he doesn’t get advice; it’s that he can’t hear advice, can’t process it or turn it into action. ‘He’ll reach out, he’ll start to listen. He’ll change, soften.’ No, he won’t.”

Probably right. It’s possible that this poor week of negative campaigning will finally wake up Trump. He could still win if he has strong debates against an opponent whose actions have killed adults and whose goal is to kill millions of babies. Yes, and elephants can fly. Some people hope that an “intervention” by GOP leaders will give Trump a magic feather, but there is no such thing and he would drop it anyway.

We are helpless. God is not. Noonan ends her column by noting the useful word “kakistocracy,” from the Greek, which “means government by the worst persons, by the least qualified or most unprincipled.” At this point only theocracy properly understood—God’s intervention, not rule by church hierarchs—can counter kakistocracy. God could make Trump start to listen. Something to pray for.