Yes! I just wrote that same comment.

“Savvy Impartial Politics Knower.”

Yeah, just go buy this: https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0306&FundIntExt=INT

The market had some dips in early 2016 before starting back up again in summer 2016. That is long before Trump’s election and certainly not “the better last half of his presidency”. Rip Obama if you want, but do it factually.

“Largely due to racism (you don’t want that black man making as much as that white man!”

Unions are dying because they eat their young. A few years back the UAW was looking at a major strike against the automakers, but rather than go through with that, they settled for a two-tiered wage system that gave the older workers continued high pay and benefits while sticking the younger workers with a much lower…

Sure, but you’d better plan for a late departure since it’s, you know, Amtrak.

Probably too fast for you to get on 90/94 and make it anywhere worthwhile. The roads would be the first thing to be occupied.

I used to like Cilizza’s horse-race analysis, but he’s turned into something weirder, as if the horse race is its own endpoint and not leading to anything more important. Now he’s the worst of the “how did they frame the issue?” lot.

Yeah, the libertarian Republicans aren’t going to settle for an American emperor. Trump’s biggest weakness is the fact that he’ll be mocked mercilessly.

Sarah Kendzior made the point that while things look bleak, American democratic traditions might (might) make a positive difference.

Fun fact: Biff Tannen in BTTF 2 was very much based on Donald Trump!

This argument is basically why Orange County, CA went blue for the first time in decades.

I share this sentiment, but the country is a closed system. If we don’t pay it on the way in with health insurance, schools and youth programs, we pay it on the way out with jacked-up E.R. fees, prisons and law enforcement. For some weird reason we love the latter around here, but yeah, trying to make that argument is…

“randomized trials, natural experiments and large datasets that track outcomes for extended periods of time”

This is my thought process exactly. He’s uniquely terrible, but you could also take heart in the fact that he’s uniquely unpopular as PEOTUSes go.

Not sure what you mean by this — if enough Repubs want him gone, he’s gone. He’d probably pull a Nixon and resign before impeachment because he “Made America great already” and the haters just don’t value him enough.

That said, getting the GOP to turn on him is one high-ass bar to clear.

I keep imagining the portrait gallery line of all the presidents, and then it ends with Donald goddamn Trump. Like walking along one of those botanical garden rows of trees and at the end is a person taking a shit.

You’re not alone. In my worst moments I fear that my 4-month-old kid is going to live “The Road”.

Should Matthis do this, which he won’t, I guarantee they couldn’t hand power back to the civilian government fast enough. The military HATES politics.

If you assume 200 million adults in the USA (out of 310 million people altogether), and Trump got 62 million, that’s about 30 percent of the population. More than 10 percent but certainly far, far, far from half.