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Polar boor: Greenland episode shows Trump at his usual worst
Trump found yet another way to demonstrate that he can dish it out, but he can’t take it.
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Trump’s favorite lie: Everything was bad under Obama
President Trump describes an America in which everything was going down the tubes under Barack Obama, which is why we needed Trump to make America great again.
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Are we in a constitutional crisis? Or is it just a period of ‘constitutional rot’?
Constitutional law and history professors Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin exchanged a series of worried letters during the year of Donald Trump’s rise to power and the first year of his presidency to discuss how the U.S. system was faring.
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Not in a good place: Trump and the state-by-state approval polls
Things can and will change. But based on current polling, President Donald Trump is in a lot of trouble in a lot of states he needs to carry.
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On mass shootings and why, for Trump, gun restrictions aren’t part of the solution
Said the president: “Mental illness and hatred pull the trigger, not the gun.”
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Democratic voters’ preferences aren’t following the moderate/liberal policy script
The New York Times’ Nate Cohn argues that comparing issue positions “is not the way that many voters make up their minds.”
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Weekend’s killings bring out the term ‘stochastic terrorism’
According to dictionary.com, it refers to: “Acts of violence by random extremists, triggered by political demagoguery.”
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Can Trump break this six-decade U.S. election pattern?
The pattern: If the president’s approval rating is “above water,” meaning more approvers than disapprovers, he wins a second term. If the president has a negative approval rating, he loses.
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What programs constitute socialism? Dems’ and Republicans’ answers differ
Is Medicare socialism? 44 percent of Democrats said yes, but only 29 percent of Republicans agreed. Would free health care for all be socialism? Republicans said yes, by 77 percent; but only 55 percent of Democrats agreed.
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Remember, impeachment is just the start of the removal process
At the moment, roughly (and exactly) zero Republican senators have publicly expressed any interest in voting to convict and remove President Trump from office.
