But there's a fourth interpretation: Obama can't leave his comfort zone. No president since Woodrow Wilson has been as enamored of abstract ideas or more sure that disagreement with him is proof of ignorance, bad faith or dogmatism. As a candidate, he insisted his real opponent was 'cynicism,' and in his address last week, he returned to this trite formulation, insisting again he was bravely battling the cynics.

I think what we're seeing on a lot of parts of the right is people bending their positions and their principles on account of the fact that Donald Trump won.

Liberals are Nazis, and Nazis are liberals. And if you don't agree with me, you're a Nazi too.

Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.

A lot of the things that Trump needs to do to be a popular president requires annoying his biggest fans.

The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.

As a broad generalization, big businesses have no moral objections to being whores. Getting into bed with Uncle Sam is all a question of price, not principle.