The only thing that's funny about this hypothetical is that she's essentially everything Trump claims to be and isn't - a shrewd businesswoman and self-promoter, a self-made billionaire, and a charismatic and reasonably well-liked TV celebrity - only with the knife twist of being female, black, and not hot, which are…

His alleged apology hits all of the notes that he criticizes the left for - recourse to "identity politics", plea for his emotional "triggers" to be understood and respected, admission that words matter - and he asks for the same compassion and sensitivity that he seems to find abhorrently PC in every other context. …

I work with college students, and it is overwhelmingly the latter, though it's true that social media makes certain tendencies more visible and easily expressed. It's also just the case that in terms of their cognitive development, 17-22 year olds are still more rigid in their thinking and more governed by emotions…