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Donald Trump: The-Blamer-in-Chief

<em>鈥淭hose engaged in the political arena must stop treating political opponents as being morally defective. The language of moral condemnation and destructive routine, these are arguments and disagreements that have to stop.鈥</em>President Trump at a Wisconsin ...

Defining nationalism

An American nationalist loves his country, its democratic institutions and traditions. He, or she, wants the country to be its very best self and to live its ideals.The other night, in Texas, Donald Trump told a cheering crowd: 鈥淎 globalist is a person who wants the globe to do well. Frankly, ...

The wacky world of Trump

Donald Trump has spawned a whole industry: the novelty Donald Trump industry. Fans and critics alike are in on the game of making a buck (or two) off the image, sayings, and plain wackiness of the 45th president of the United States and the wacky, wacky world we all inhabit, thanks to him.The ...

All the Best Word Salad

<em>鈥淚 went to an Ivy League school. I鈥檓 very highly educated. I know words. I have the best words.鈥</em>Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump, Dec. 30, 2015President Trump once told the American people that he knew the 鈥渂est words鈥, and he hinted he knew ...

An asymmetrical history

鈥淚n the waning decades of the 20th century, liberals and conservatives alike cast the lingering divisions of the 1960s less as a matter of law-and-order than as a matter of life-and-death. Either abortion was murder and guns meant freedom, or guns meant murder and abortion was freedom. How ...

The Comedy stylings of Donald Trump

President Trump is a self-made billionaire -- if you believe him. I don鈥檛.There鈥檚 that extensive New York Times report that provides some proof that Trump is no more a self-made billionaire than I am. For the record, I鈥檓 not one.That 14,000-word report not only demystifies Donald Trump ...