esquire.com – CLEVELAND, OHIO—In the interest of good government, I have a suggestion for Republican vice-presidential candidate Mike Pence. Mike, here’s the thing. When you are on television standing behind your running mate and he starts babbling and fuming and going publicly bananas, as hard as it may be, it’s probably best if you try to avoid looking at your running mate as though he were a two-headed talking ape. This is going to happen quite a few times between now and November.

I suppose it’s cold comfort to know that he still can’t control himself, that even while his abbatoir of an acceptance speech was being treated as something more than unusually grammatical gibberish. I suppose it’s cold comfort to know that the Republican presidential nominee remains desperately in need of adult supervision.