Barack Obama is extremely smart.

At best, Trumpism will be a more right-wing version of the same old Republican Party.

In public, Barack Obama's giving the simple version of his beliefs for the mass public. In private, he can discuss it at a really high level.

Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history.

Illiberal left ideology has its greatest strength on campuses because campuses are one of the few places in American life where a certain kind of far-left politics can actually impose hegemony on other ideas and really control the discourse in a way it can't in most places in American life where even moderate liberals are more of a minority.

Liberals tend to romanticize the past, past leaders' failures.

Liberals will only support you after you're gone.