The thing you need to understand about Trump is that he is, fundamentally, a narcissist. His sense of self is intolerably fragile and depends on the belief that he is the best, the most important, the most powerful, the most moral and the most intelligent person in existence. Anything that counters that internal…

There wasn’t a single eye roll, smirk, or cocked eyebrow.

Almost every big entitlement program has needed rule corrections by Congress to make it work properly. But a GOP House would never touch that, so we end up stuck with sub-optimal solutions.

The next President cannot tweek the ACA as needed or Obama would be doing it.

While Hillary was once giving a primary speech, CNN kept its cameras trained on an empty stage awaiting Trump to enter.

Oh yeah. Tabs, sliders, plastic hinges and nubs are going to wear down or completely break over time. Unless they make those parts out of metal, which I’d doubt. The more moving parts = the more chance of failure.

I saw Clinton mention it in the shit show of the 2nd debate. She said that ACA needs more power to do what it’s intended to do, or some reasonable facsimile of that.

I’m more concerned with the wear and tear on the switching in and out stuff.

I honestly think he never gave a second thought to any of this before now, because he never considered that there was a possibility that these women might not have liked it before now.

Fellow Democrats: if you want more liberal-leaning people at the top of the ticket, you need to vote more liberal people in down the ticket. That means showing up for primaries, that means actually knowing people’s policy positions, that means writing to your representatives about issues, that means grass-roots…

I like a lot of what you write. This - the idea that everyone who holds differing political views than your own should be shunned/punished, coupled with the assertion that one of the nation’s most accomplished, and beloved, jurists is “dumb” for not agreeing with you - this is not your finest hour.

This. I’m tired of this bullshit that she’s some uniquely weak candidate. We’re not supposed to talk about it, but we’re going to look back at this and realize how much of her difficulty in being a frontrunner was little more than the result of her being a woman to an electorate fighting against history.

But, he hasn’t though. These debates have absolutely killed him. Are you following the same election I am? Have we forgotten this quickly that the race in 2012, for instance, was much closer in the polls? Can we stop this talking point that he is somehow a stronger candidate than most? Because he’s been an awful…

For the Republicans at least, I find this analysis pretty convincing: it’s because now he’s threatening their votes: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/10/the_horror_is_everything_the_gop_could_tolerate_about_trump.html

Trump boasted of attacking white women. The GOP won’t stand for that! Nor will our national political press.

This latest set of scandals reminded me of the savage Chicago Tribune opinion piece, When this is over, you will have nothing you want. It’s a wonderful read.

It’s easy to imagine Hillary Clinton wiling the evening away with some close friends, laughing over champagne over all of this mishegoss.

Huh. I legitimately expected them to be worse than that.

“I think he’s definitely got attention deficit disorder,” said Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio, who interviewed Trump five times for a total of eight hours and found himself frustrated trying to get him to concentrate on answers to questions about his parents, his childhood, just about anything. “That doesn’t mean…

Does Trump have attention deficit disorder? I don’t know how he’s going to function if he becomes President. His head might explode trying to process all the shit that will be coming at him.