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

Obamaism is the future of America.

On Obamacare, every day that goes by I have more evidence that I wish I could put in my book, on how difficult it is for the Republicans to eliminate this law. They have no real alternative. They're afraid to take away health care from the 20 million people who now have it.

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.

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.

Barack Obama knows a lot about a lot of things.

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