“A generation ago, a Presidential contender like Trump wasn’t conceivable”
A generation ago, a Presidential contender like Trump wasn’t conceivable. Jimmy Carter brought smiling...
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“A good number of voters seem to have decided that the choice this year is between two candidates they don’t like”
A good number of voters seem to have decided that the choice this year...
“…before 1968, primaries hardly mattered; since 1968, the Conventions have hardly mattered”
The protests at the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968 resulted in a change...
“…Trump’s answer to a deeply important policy questions is stream-of-consciousness blather…”
…Trump’s answer to a deeply important policy questions is stream-of-consciousness blather, a nearly indecipherable...
“As the debate wore on, Mrs. Clinton kept finding opportunities to make Mr. Trump seem smaller and smaller, or at least more puerile”
As the debate wore on, Mrs. Clinton kept finding opportunities to make Mr. Trump...
“…Trump…has just given the media an excuse to savage him in the days to come”
The media largely structures its coverage around partisan disagreement. If a candidate’s own party...
“In the third and final presidential debate, Mrs. Clinton outmaneuvered Mr. Trump with a surprising new approach: his.”
She mansplained him. “Let me translate that if I can,” Hillary Clinton said dryly...
“After two historically acrid debates, Mrs. Clinton finally got the policy discussion she had craved”
After two historically acrid debates, Mrs. Clinton finally got the policy discussion she had...
“Two things have been true throughout the debates”
Two things have been true throughout the debates. One is that Trump has been,...
“It also seems clear that Trump has a weird problem with admitting error”
It also seems clear that Trump has a weird problem with admitting error. Confronted...