I suspect that his base will have some trouble maintaining excitement for three more years of grievance nursing a la "I live in a nicer apartment than the elites who look down on me." It worked during the election, but now they've handed him fabulous power and he still just feels aggrieved.

19,000 comments, 83,000 upvotes. Man. I will miss everyone.

Absolutely fabulous. Traveled to totality in Oregon, on an alpaca ranch with several hundred people and a similar number of alpacas. The diamond rings were especially breathtaking.

I'm viewing it as closer to "You can get married in the park, and you need permits and stuff to hold a large gathering there, but you can't ask that other park goers not hang around and stare and take pictures."

I saw a quote to the effect that Ghandi argued resistance to the Nazis should have been strictly nonviolent—allow time for a negative response to the horrors of their murdering Jews etc, and they would stop. Which people nowadays figure wouldn't have worked, and was not the right answer.

See, I believe that Mooch would call up a liberal publication and go on an extended sharing of his deepest feelings without asking himself "should I say this is off the record? wait, is it hypocritical to leak that I want to kill leakers? is there any chance this reporter will report what I'm saying?"

It can't be a private event when it's on public land. It especially can't be a private event not designed to intimidate when it is on a public mountaintop visible for miles around.

Back in January, my theory was that the GOP would turn on him about two months after it would be blazingly obvious that they should have turned on him. So watch this space in late October.

Context: Musing about pardoning Arpaio. He needs something big, something that can top Charlottesville.

"I stand by my man. Both of them."

I have a theory about Kelly:

"Maybe we should all move into the two luxury houses—PT's and Susan's—and live indoors, now that they're dead."

"But what if he's about to pivot?"

I think when it finally comes to removing him from office, and he tries to send Republicans out with talking points while promising to stick to this story and not start angrily flailing and undercutting everyone, this week will help convince no one to believe him.

This. Had Germans gone around in the 1990s—50 years after WW2—erecting a bunch of Hitler and Goebbels statues, people wouldn't say "Oooooooh yeah, honoring the history without supporting the cause, definitely no deeper meaning here."

How hard is it to arrive at a "not racist" rally, notice there are Nazis to your left and the KKK to your right, and conclude that you had better leave?

Everyone needs to push back HARD on "if the anti-Nazi protesters hadn't been there, it wouldn't be a problem."

You know that final detail burns humiliatingly deep with Trump.

I think Trump completely failed to understand the purpose of the Monday news conference: it was never going to gain him universal acclaim. It was to provide cover for people like Ivanka and Ryan, who wanted to be able to point to him managing to say "Nazis are bad." When he didn't get universal acclaim he just raged…

I recall a piece from the late, great Molly Ivins about a Texas pol who changed his name to be one middle initial off that of a popular judge with wildly dissimilar views and experience. Very successful electoral strategy.