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And in this clip, they discuss why the polls can’t trusted, whether America really needs a “change election,” and why Hillary Clinton couldn’t just haul off and kick Donald Trump in the nuts at the second debate: … [Read more...] about Rebecca Traister and Andrew Sullivan Talk Trump and the Democrats on

For a guy who couldn’t get approved for the Ambassador to the U.N. years ago, couldn’t get approved for anything since, “begged” me for a non Senate approved job, which I gave him despite many saying “Don’t do it, sir,” takes the job, mistakenly says “Libyan Model” on T.V., and.. … [Read more...] about Donald Trump: If I Listened to John Bolton, We’d Be in World War Six

No doubt the tale of Darweesh’s Trumpian welcome to New York was of particular interest to people in Mosul, where American special forces are now urging the Iraqi army on in a grim and protracted battle with ISIS. Darweesh is said by court papers filed Friday seeking his release to have served in Mosul and in Baghdad as an interpreter for the U.S. Army. … [Read more...] about The Donald Trump Fan Detained in His Muslim Ban

One of the odder phenomena in the fraught recent history of American conservatism has been the strong overlap on the political right of the pre-2016 intellectual movement known as “reform conservatism” (and its proponents, “reformicons”) and the ranks of outspoken conservative critics of Donald J. Trump. It’s odd because if you ignore all of the terrifying optics associated with the 45th president, in some respects he was the answer — if perhaps a funhouse-mirror kind of answer — to the questions reformicons like Ross Douthat, Reihan Salam, and David Frum were asking before his arrival on the scene. By and large, reformicons complained that Republican elites were not responsive enough to the cultural views and economic interests of their own white working-class base. Trump, in his own inimitable and inarticulate way, expressed the same critique. I commented on this strange convergence even as Trump was beginning to move toward the Republican … [Read more...] about Trump’s ‘Love It Or Leave It’ Jingoism Was Predictable All Along

Via The New York Times, "The outbreak of the mysterious new coronavirus is rapidly spreading, the Chinese authorities said on Tuesday, as the official account of known cases jumped nearly 60 percent overnight and the death toll exceeded 100 for the first time." https://nyti.ms/2Gu5Ntx … [Read more...] about The Hill’s 12:30 Report: Trump lawyers to offer closing arguments on day 7