I’ve lived in the US, and a country that has price controls on medical care and employer-provided insurance (country B), and a country with the equivalent of Sanders’ plan (country C). I have young children and a child born in B. The options in C are by far the best; for example, I don’t have to buy private insurance…

I bet Kelly is the one that leads the Cabinet to push DJT out via 25th Amendment.

Democrats should run on “Save healthcare. Build infrastructure.”

Democrats aren’t the Party That Says No. Look at GOP behavior all during Obama’s tenure. They were offered many chances for bipartisan compromise.

The alt-left does have a home party: The Greens. They didn’t choose a good candidate this time, just like the Dems didn’t.

We shouldn’t want a blue populist (George Wallace was arguably one of those); we want a democratic socialist.

I was raised in that environment, and for twenty years I tried to persuade family members that that anti-gay, anti-socialist, anti-diversity actions by the GOP were injust. It made no difference. When they voted Trump, it was the last straw for me. It would be great to find there’s a way to change their minds.

Bravo! Best analysis I’ve read in months.

I wish the solution were as simple as basic income, but I strongly suspect politicians will never increase it to keep pace with the cost-of-living. For example, even the AMT threshold has remained unchanged, so now it hits the middle class as well as the rich. I suspect instead we need a constitutional amendment that…

He has a better exit. He could claim he has a serious illness, resign, and ‘recover’ after Pence finishes the term.