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

Trump has a lot of authoritarian tendencies that need to be a serious concern.

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.

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.

Trump is what Obama critics think Obama is: Someone who's focused on symbolism rather than substance.

That's an important Obama accomplishment: he raised taxes back to Bill Clinton levels, and made a major dent in inequality doing so. That's certain to be reversed, that's going to disappear. The Republicans are going to slash the rich's taxes.