Apparently the vocabulary and eloquence of a kindergartner resonates with his base. Make of that what you will. (I already miss President Obama so much.)

The pre-existing conditions clause is that they can’t deny or charge more for coverage. Sure, companies will find ways to obfuscate and discourage and target, but we can call that out, and regardless the effect will be that prices are higher for all of us, which is a pain point they acknowledged and pledged to fix.…

You know how much Trump likes to fire people who displease him. And I bet he keeps close a key staffer who’s not a shill for the GOP. (Well, a series of them.) His ego will not allow him to be subordinated by the Party. I find a little bit of hope in that. Sure, on many things we’re going to get screwed, but if we…

Maybe tell them how much no co-pay birth control has helped men.

I apologize. You probably don’t need to be textwalled right now. Hope is where you find it. Believe it or not I find mine in that wall of text (and not just at the end of it). There will be more defeats ahead. There will also be victories. The nation will get past this, and Americans will do better by each other.

Well, I can see you’re in full on denial mode. Getting derisive, isn’t the answer. Getting realistic is.

ALWAYS A LONG SHOT? BARELY MORE THAN 50-50? HORSESHIT. What election were you following this year?

We’ve lost Congress and the Presidency. We’re going to lose the Supreme Court. That alone is a crushing blow. But wait, there’s more. Affordable healthcare, what few controls we have on banks, energy and environmental policy are all on the chopping block. Filibuster won’t stop all that — probably won’t stop any of…

Thanks for pointing out the Warren interview. There’s not a lot of hope to go around, but Warren’s determination and practicality point a way forward.

No puppet! No puppet! You’re the puppet!

He’ll delegate to staff he can control (fire), not a politician he can’t.

For some, vision goes first. It’s easier that way.

If you read a newspaper every day, you’d have to see political headlines and unwrap them from the sports section.

The good news is that Trump is calmer, nicer, and makes better decisions when he’s unhappy.

The GOP just might kill the filibuster. They own the House, and might figure if they do lose Senate majority in two years it’ll be after they’ve done their business. They’re fine with a deadlocked federal government then, because they’ll have a friendly SCOTUS. It suits their States’ Rights agenda.

When his first Russia briefing starts with “an economy less than one-eighth the size of ours” maybe he’ll get over his Putin crush.

He’s considering people other than his supporters.

What he’s unhappy about is having to play nice. I think he actually wants to be Presidential, it’s just so hard.

I think that they will be ecstatic enough at the ability to pass a law killing the Affordable Care Act that they won’t feel it necessary to cut it off effective immediately. Health plans run for a year. They can let the year run out, by which time they can have some token “it’s going to be great” bullshit established.

Photograph it, record it, document the individual story, keep it personal, and post it, without extensive editorial or abstraction. Humanize and personalize the effects of specific racist attacks. I wouldn’t build a campaign on it — I think social media campaigns without a clear achievable goal and that are seen as…