Billy Ball

As Trump held the RNC in Charlotte, conservative critics like James Comey, MIchael Steele, and Evan McMullin roasted the president.

There is an arc to wartime reporting, a professor once told me. And while it is not a science — no two wars are the same — there are certain components we can rely on.  The first dispatches tend to be positive. They are, more or less, generally trusting of our commanders in chief. “U.S.…