Normally what happens in a new presidency is the president has a big agenda, and Congress is full of people with human weaknesses. And so the president indulges the human weaknesses of members of Congress in order to pass his agenda. This time it's the other way around. Donald Trump does not have much of an agenda. Congress burns with this intense Republican agenda and so does Congress that has to put up with the human weaknesses of the president in order to get a signature on the things it desperately wants to pass.

The Iraq fight itself is probably going to go very, very fast. The shooting should be over within just a very few days from when it starts.

I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.

The system has evolved to protect parties from people like Donald Trump. It really is true that people without well-established public records, without proven capability in public service, without tested beliefs and at least apparently under the influence of a foreign power, such people are screened out by major parties.

Civil unrest, civil turmoil is not a challenge to President Trump. It's a resource for him. He needs to create an image of a polarized country in which the people who are against him are somehow alien or anti-system.

America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently.

I don't think that disasters have to be spectacular. They can be a slow corrosion.