What Bannon and Trump have presented us with is an idea of America that's not been the traditional idea, not the Walt Whitman idea, not the George Washington, Abraham Lincoln idea, which is one of welcoming because we're the last, best hope of Earth.

If we got rid of everybody in Washington who sold access for donations, then the town would be empty. But it's unseemly.

Betsy DeVos is not the most informed person on education policy, but I have seen her present a few times, and she presents as a pretty respectable, intelligent person who has cared passionately about education and cares about charter schools.

The most interesting thing is that the White House staff and the people under Donald Trump, at least some portion of them, some large portion of them, seem to have turned against Donald Trump.

I'm a pundit. I'm, like, paid to be a narcissistic blowhard and be in front of the camera.

Donald Trump is so egregious in the way he talks about women, the way he allegedly treated women.

If you thought Donald Trump was going to be swallowed up by the conventional Republican Party or by Washington, you were wrong.