The story of the Republican Party is of a far-right that has moved from the fringes of the party to a complete domination of the party. The moderate, mainstream and pragmatic leaders of the party have been pushed out or died off.

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

Barack Obama is a very impressive human being.

I don't think the Democrats need a silver bullet.

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

I worry about the entire structure of American democracy under Trump.

In the long run, however much damage we come through, Obama's vision is the one that's going to be left standing. It's a question of how much pain and suffering America has to endure in the meantime.