If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.

You have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves...

I'd like to see college debt levels drop by a lot, but I'm not quite sure what the best way to do that is.

Promising a revolution that’s simply not feasible really does have the potential to create cynicism when a couple of years go by and it hasn’t happened.

On the Medicare side, they limited their cuts to far in the future, and to providers.

So many theories. But all of them have one thing in common: They demonstrate that although Trump isn’t much of a businessman, he is rich enough to hire good tax attorneys who will hand over huge stacks of forms for him to sign blindly. That’s a helluva qualification for president, isn’t it?

If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.