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The Democratic Party will now stick with its guy forever, no matter how harmful he is. Perhaps you call that loyalty, and perhaps there's something to it, but a bigger part, I believe, is that you have come to think that winning is everything-that victory is the purpose of politics.

This is the Democratic paradox: You want so much to run America and yet you seem not so fond of Americans.

The biggest political change in my lifetime is that Americans no longer assume that their children will have it better than they did. This is a huge break with the past, with assumptions and traditions that shaped us.

What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition.

But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.

[democrats] have become the party of snobs. You have become the party of Americans who think they're better than other Americans.