One of the things we've learned during the Obama era is how important norms are, because we've seen how the Republican Party behaved against Obama. So much of what they did was to smash pre-existing norms, which were nothing more than assumptions of how people would behave, which didn't have any real basis in rules or limits.

Conservatives are much more comfortable supporting the leader who's in power than liberals.

There's an element of clowning and entertainment to Trump, that makes it surreal and hard to understand to what extent he is pretending to be a fascist or an authoritarian.

Donald Trump will be a tragedy, a sad joke in American history.

Liberals will only support you after you're gone.

Trump's not the future; his ideas and his coalition are a dead end.

We're not going to be living in a world of abundant coal power in a hundred years.