Yes. But the entire population of the House and a third of the Senate are up for performance review in a year and a half. We’ll see how that goes.

Well, there you’ve hit upon the one thing where I think he feels like he knows what he’s talking about: trade. Renegotiating NAFTA, killing TPP. These were at the core of his campaign, and I think the republican establishment is willing, as you say, to throw him a bone on that.

Is Krauthammer a Neocon? I think of him as an old-school Reaganaut.

Extra-presidential!

I sense you have a camera backstage at our new national reality show. 😞

He just wants to watch his stories and tweet at the haters! Why is everyone making this “president” stuff so complicated??

Black sharpie all the way.

If “the people” is Paul Ryan.

He’s really just turning out to be a lapdog for the establishment right, isn’t he? Grover Norquist’s “we just need a guy who can use a pen.”

I would like a half million dollars for a kitty sanctuary. One of my cats is disproportionally large and may in fact be an ocelot. We were tricked by missus chritter’s school buddy!

Jenkins and his husband eventually raised $440,000 via crowdfunding

Man is a pathological liar, con man and bullshit slinger of the highest order. New Yorkers know him well, and have known him for decades. His home county went for Hillary 90-10. The fact that he’s managed to con the rest of the country only makes us tired and sad.

My family. I have good family.

I have never seen a crowd like this in New York City. Made lots of new friends.

“We saw a candidate use identity politics—and I’m talking about Donald Trump—who managed to make the dog whistles about who gets to really be an American, who really gets to belong, who really deserves, turn those dog whistles into a bullhorn. And we can no longer be silent about how important it is to finally…

*sigh*

You are far from alone in heartbreak. I can only take a little consolation in the energy this is stirring up in people who may have been sitting on the sidelines otherwise. The smart, calm guy, the con law professor, is gone now. He will indeed go down in history, but he can’t save us anymore. The only ones who can…

That’s a good rendering of why some of us say that, I think. We, as a country, didn’t rise to the simple challenge he laid down: be decent, talk to each other in good faith, solve problems though we may disagree on exactly how.

That’s the part I find the most distasteful. That obstructionism, that constitution-be-damned tantrum-throwing? That obstruct/obscure/distort at every level? It worked.

Maybe.