America cannot be America in the new century until it deals with these new questions of gender, including the trans issues, and the questions around faith and Islam.

You have a new media system and Donald Trump emerged as a new master of it.

Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting, though, to the - what the real threats are, and the real opportunities.

That America is in the calamity is a result of a certain amount of elitism in the Democratic Party where they're tied to the sensibility of the college-educated, multicultural crowd, of which I'm a part, which has created a sense where it's OK to say, "All the red state voters are stupid, they're all dummies, they're all racist, they're all backwards mouth-breathing knuckle-dragging ..." all that stuff. And that kind of elitism, which is first of all not true, is also not fair. It's also dumb strategy.

Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.

I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time.

We thought Donald Trump was leaving that world of entertainment and climbing over the wall into politics. In fact, what he did was he pulled the world of politics into the world of reality television.