The October Surprise Arrives

The politics of the migrant caravan sound a lot like the Kavanaugh nomination fiasco.

It looks as if the 2018 election’s October Surprise is about to arrive—from Honduras.

There they are—all 7,000 or so of them meandering across Mexico, on television 24/7 and the front pages every day. Unavoidably, everyone is forced to shape an opinion about it. Unavoidably, it’s political.

Most media coverage runs on two joined tracks....