It is entirely possible that, because I was making decisions in an environment where Hillary Clinton was sure to be the next president, my concern about making her an illegitimate president by concealing the restarted investigation bore greater weight than it would have if the election appeared clos…
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There is, of course, nothing inherently scary or disqualifying about an elected leader who seeks wisdom in scripture and solace in prayer. What critics should worry about is not that Pence believes in God, but that he seems so certain God believes in him. What happens when manifest destiny replaces…
If America slides into authoritarianism, the history of the Republican Party’s complicity could be titled, ‘I wasn’t paying attention. I’m just worried about taxes.'
Attempting to define reality is a core feature of authoritarianism. This is what the Soviets did when they erased political dissidents from historical photos. This is what happens in George Orwell's classic novel 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', when a torturer holds up four fingers and delivers electric sho…
Listening to Trump, it almost felt like there was no such thing as truth anymore. It still feels that way.
He [Trump] reminded me of one of those old men ranting on about how the country was going to hell in a handbasket unless people started listening to him.
Presidentialism can work fine when there is basic consensus over what it means to be a citizen and what it means to be a nation. But the United States no longer enjoys such a consensus.
What I do know, and what studies have shown, is that the amount of coverage, say, on television news given to climate change, given to the decline of the middle class, given to health care, given to unemployment, given to poverty is minimal, minimal, a fraction, a fraction, compared to the amount th…
You can’t run a campaign—you can’t run a party—based on the facts that some of your supporters will vote against Republicans because of a, b, and c reasons: racism, sexism, homophobia. You need to stand for something! It’s not good enough to say, ‘Well, I’m not a racist, I’m not a sexist, I’m not a…
Clearly there is no working with a president who believes in, or will bring forth, programs or policies based on bigotry, whether it is racism, sexism, homophobia, or xenophobia, and there can be no compromise on that. There can be no compromise on the issue of climate change, which is a threat to t…
Trump posed as a champion of working families—somebody who is going to take on the establishment. And it's beyond belief that he could do that. This is a guy who's a billionaire who doesn't pay anything in federal income taxes, who outsources his jobs for his companies to Bangladesh, China, Mexico,…
‘I think Hillary will fuck up the country more. [Trump's] not a person of politics, he’s a guy like us. He’s a sexist, he might be a little be crazy and compulsive. But you know what? I’m like that. And I honestly see a lot of similarities.
— Jon, thetab.com
To the degree that Donald Trump is serious about pursuing policies that improve the lives of working families in this country, I and other progressives are prepared to work with him. To the degree that he pursues racist, sexist, xenophobic and anti-environment policies, we will vigorously oppose him…
To those who didn't vote for me, of which there were a few, I'm reaching out to you for your guidance and your help so we can work together and unify our great country
To all Republicans and Democrats across this nation, I say it is time for us to all come together as one united people. It's time. I pledge to every citizen in our land, that I will be a President for all Americans. And this is so important to me.
I just received a call from Secretary Clinton. She congratulated us, it's about us, on our victory. And I congratulated her and her family for a very hard fought campaign.
In my Contract with the American Voter, I offer a historic pro-growth plan to create 25 million good paying jobs. We will cut taxes on middle-class Americans by 35%. We will eliminate every needless job-killing regulation. We will repeal and replace catastrophic Obamacare with new reforms that drama…
America has too many problems, too many things to fix, to mire our government in years of sordid corruption and criminal investigation. It is time to cut our ties with the failed politicians of the past, and embrace a bright, new future for all of our people
Hillary Clinton has been the subject of an FBI criminal investigation into many crimes against this nation. Were she ever to be elected, it would trigger an unprecedented constitutional crisis — Hillary is likely to be under investigation for a long time, grinding our government to a halt.
Real change also means draining the swamp of corruption in Washington. We must fix a rigged system in which political insiders can break the law without consequence and where government officials put special interests above the national interest. If we want to make America great again, we must clean…