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Would any one of the 10 Democratic nominees be an improvement over Trump?
Though I don’t claim to know who is the most electable one.
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Howard Lavine on ‘democratic inversion’: When party loyalty is stronger than a person’s values or beliefs
Instead of having values and beliefs and policy instincts that determine which party or candidate one will support, the theory of “democratic inversion” suggests that more and more voters have turned over what you might call their values and priorities calculator to their party.
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‘Raise Hell’ captures Molly Ivins — and includes her time at the Minneapolis Tribune
“Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins,” a documentary celebrating her life, opens at the Lagoon Cinema on Friday.
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Trump as TV character: Here’s help in understanding him
Check out this op-ed in the Sunday New York Times by its chief TV critic, James Poniewozik, the author of a book titled “Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television and the Fracturing of America.”
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‘Need for chaos’ theory focuses on a subset of Trump supporters
Check out the latest column by the great Thomas Edsall of the New York Times, headlined “The Trump Voters Whose ‘Need for Chaos’ Obliterates Everything Else.”
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Trump’s approval/disapproval gap slowly widens
As of this morning, 41.3. percent of Americans approve of the job he is doing as president; 54.3 percent disapprove.
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In pattern break, Monmouth poll shows three-way tie among top Dem hopefuls
The Monmouth University result is out of step with most of the other highly regarded polls.
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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.
