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Getting reelected would show that all those politicos who said he needed to moderate his conduct didn't know what they were talking about.
Trump has created a dynamic for his supporters where the more victimized he is, the better.
"There is a time for everything: a time to pray and a time to play."
He's signing up for the most miserable experience of any congressional leader since John Boehner.
Any political obituaries are premature until a verdict has been reached by the force that has buoyed him.

Republicans have looked past his selfishness in the dubious belief that he is the GOP's unique electoral savior.
We should be seeking to put such dangerous people out of commission. And we aren't doing it with requisite seriousness.
There is nothing in the actual behavior of Democrats to suggest that they take their own rhetoric seriously.
Diplomacy, like warfare, has its costs, which isn't a good reason to shut down any discussion of it.

The activists are quite pleased with the attention they are getting. It's not true, though, that all publicity is good publicity.
The voters seem to be working themselves up to administer what is the only appropriate reaction to such heedless mismanagement and transparent spin.
It may be the case that we will experience more political violence, but it would hardly be unprecedented in our national life and wouldn't constitute anything remotely like a civil war.

The ongoing unraveling of California's rail plan is an object lesson in how infrastructure as eschatology is a bad idea.

His classical-liberal sense that false or unwelcome speech is best combatted by more speech once was a matter of consensus.
Despite Democratic hopes, these voters are up for grabs, and their support has to be earned like that of other Americans.
Everyone knows that he's about to turn 80, and can see it reflected in how he performs.
Crime isn't a racial issue; it's about affording all Americans the protection they deserve from lawlessness.

Come November, she may look more like Beto O'Rourke than Barack Obama.

Biden officials don't want to stop the flow; they just want to manage it better.