The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens.

Democracy requires you to learn how to lose as well as how to exercise power when you win. And that requires restraint all around. One of the reasons it works is because when you win you don't do things that are so upsetting to the losers that they feel like they have less, they have more to gain by turning over the system.

While there is an attempt by the Trump people to say that California isn't really America. California certainly seems like America to me.

In America, you will see in area after area, media under pressure, businesses under pressure not to criticize Donald Trump lest he reduce their stock value with an angry tweet.

We've all been wrong- I certainly have- and we should thank those who set us right. Not always fun, but always best in the end.

If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?

My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.