Populists love rich people. They just hate professionals.

It's hard to imagine a party that is not corrupted by hatred.

There are no free and democratic and wealthy countries in the world that have US rate of gun violence. We have to worry about loners and alienated people. We have to do better on mental health.

If Donald Trump is just tweeting about a union guy, then he's just being the bully we have seen. But if he uses the power of the presidency to back up some of those tweets and he's really, really coming down with a hammer on people he doesn't like using the power of the presidency, then we're seeing something very new and very different.

Parties that are majority parties are incoherent parties.

Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive.

Britain is blessed with a functioning political culture. It is dominated by people who live in London and who have often known each other since prep school. This makes it gossipy and often incestuous.