It's possible that the clowning and the buffoonery and the entertainment are a bigger part of what's happening than we've allowed. And that Trump is primarily an entertainer who wants ratings, and an undisciplined speaker, and it will all be less than we think. It's something that we have to consider as a possibility; we don't know.

I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life.

It's possible that Trump will have success by staging jobs theatre, rather than creating jobs. It's the inverse of what Obama did: saving an enormous amount of jobs without having the televised theatre to go along with it.

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

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

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

Trump was the logical outcome of the Republican's irrational, racialized backlash to Obama that had utterly come to dominate the party's thinking.