Now the Republicans have a very low-scale, by economic standards, base. Donald Trump has.

It's interesting how identity politics and Ann Coulter-style tactics have now blossomed. But they were always there in CPAC.

Something really serious has shifted in the minds of Republicans and certainly others.

That's the job of a free press is to hold the lamp up, to investigate, to hold accountable. And denying access, as Sean Spicer did , is the first step toward a dictatorship.

Donald Trump is an independent presidential candidate who ran on the Republican label. He really did. He took it over. He transformed it into his image, in his likeness.

Human trafficking is a human tragedy. It's an outrage against any decent people.

Everyone has to take Donald Trump seriously, and I think that's what we're seeing.