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“Trump is what Obama critics think Obama is: Someone who's focused on symbolism rather than substance.”

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In public, Barack Obama's giving the simple version of his beliefs for the mass public. In private, he can discuss it at a really…

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Because many people remembered a time when the Republican Party was not so extreme, and hadn't full grasped how much it had changed, people blamed Obama for his failure to get Republicans to agree with him. That blame coloured so much of how the public saw Obama during his presidency. The public thought he was dealing with a brand of…

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In some ways, Trump is just going to continue the trend: by continuing the norm-smashing behaviour that Republicans used in opposition.

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It's possible that the clowning and the buffoonery and the entertainment are a bigger part of what's happening than we've allowed. And that Trump…

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That's an important Obama accomplishment: he raised taxes back to Bill Clinton levels, and made a major dent in inequality doing so. That's certain…

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President Obama is so much smarter and a better communicator than members of Congress in either party. The contrast, side by side, is almost…

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Trump was the logical outcome of the Republican's irrational, racialized backlash to Obama that had utterly come to dominate the party's thinking.

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Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history.

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It's pretty clear that Hillary Clinton was a deeply, deeply flawed alternative. She had the wrong combination of the internal political chops to muscle out all the mainstream nominations from the field, leaving only Bernie Sanders, who was unacceptable to the Democrats' party establishment. But she also had a real lack of political skill that would enable her to win…

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We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party.

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