Eric Black

For the first hundred years of the republic, presidential candidates were expected to stay home, say nothing specific about what they would do if elected, and modestly and demurely do nothing by way of gauche self-promotion. Seriously.

As of Jan. 20, which marked three years of Trump’s incumbency, the Post’s fact-checkers had logged 16,200 false statements made by him since the day he took the oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

If we must talk about the future of the race,  it should be done humbly. And with constant acknowledgement that it is mere speculation and that experience suggests most predictions will be wrong. The future is a dark forest.

Trump has upped the ante.

There’s a part of human nature that, rather than wanting to know what’s accurate and true, wants to believe certain things, whether true or not.

If, as seems likely, he is the only Republican to break ranks, Romney will have secured a proper mention in the history of this sad tale.

This was re-election Donald Trump, speaking to gettable swing voters and trying to convince them that he has made America so much greater that they should want four more years of his peerless leadership.

Sen. Alexander is essentially saying that Trump did what he was accused of. But Alexander doesn’t believe it rises to the level of an impeachable offense for which the Senate should remove Trump from office.

John Bolton’s book has not been published, and cannot be until it undergoes scrutiny to decide whether anything in it must be removed for national security reasons.

How stupid are we supposed to be, and are we this stupid?