This is an item I wrote last night but was too busy to look over and check this morning, so…
Vehement Trump supporters abound on Twitter. That much is obvious to anyone who has used the service. Who exactly they…
Donald Trump was of course “joking” when he said yesterday in Toledo, Ohio, that “we should just cancel the election…
In my my article on this year’s presidential debates, I pointed out that these high-drama election-year rituals seem important to…
Yesterday, in installment #148 of the time capsules, I contrasted circa-2008 videos of a (comparatively) thoughtful-sounding Donald Trump with the…
With only 13 full days to go until the election, with many millions of early votes already cast, and with…
Late to this for family reasons, but catching up on an actually astonishing development: Through the campaign, Donald…
Over the past year-plus my wife Deb and I have been arguing that the “build a wall!”-style anti-immigration…
“Light” events are some of the heaviest lifting in political life. Comedy is hard to begin with, and for the…
With two and a half weeks to go, the debate phase of the competition is at last at…
Over the past three days, as the Trump campaign has condensed into a tight ball of fury, recklessness, and recrimination…
In Time Capsule installment #142, and in a followup item in this thread, I mentioned Donald Trump’s penchant for “projection”—blaming…
The very hardest thing about being president is that almost all of the choices you get to make are no-win…
In installment #142 of the Time Capsule series, I argue that “projection,” in the psychological sense, is the default…
The greatest threat Donald Trump poses to the republic is that he might become president. With each passing hour and…
To a first order of approximation, everything that Donald Trump has said about his opponents should be understood as projection…
Seven days ago, back in the innocent times of early October, I began installment #132 with this paragraph, in its…
One of the few “genteel” aspects of the Republican convention in Cleveland three months ago was Donald Trump’s response, in…
The standard throughout this Time Capsule series has been: what is happening in this Age of Trump that has not…
In last night’s debate, the Republican nominee said, apropos military policy: “General George Patton, General Douglas MacArthur are spinning in…