Actually, I think we all understand just fine why Donald Trump is president: because he ran a racist, boorish, epically mendacious campaign and Republicans all decided to go along with it. And even that wouldnโt have been enough if Trump hadnโt gotten some additional help from his pals James Comey and Vladimir Putin.
Kevin DrumWe had Hillary Clinton try and do a reset. We had Hillary Clinton give Russia 20 percent of the uranium in our country. You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons, like lots of things, are done with uranium, including some bad things.
Kevin DrumThey [Republicans] assume that military action always shows strength, while avoiding military action always shows weakness. That's just crazy.
Kevin DrumIn America, the economy is simply nowhere near bad enough to serve as the base of any kind of serious political revolution.
Kevin DrumThe media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while.
Kevin Drum[Donald trump] was steamed about [Hillary] Clinton's suggestion that he might not be as rich as he says. So he ditched the email stuff and instead spend a couple of minutes defending the greatness of his income, his company, his debts, his bankers, his buildings - and then sort of forgot what he was talking about and wandered off into a riff about how terrible our infrastructure is.
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