There's a sort of romanticizing of the past. When you actually think about the past, you know it's a little different.

Mitt Romney has to convince the American public that they need to do something they're not usually inclined to do - replace a sitting president with a challenger. And unlike in 1980 and 1992, when the public was persuaded to do just that, the incumbent president has not been weakened by a primary opponent.

I personally - if I were designing the tax code - would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid more than 13 percent, given what I know about the kind of investments he made money from.

It's been an unusual election [2016].

Of course there are different forms of conservatism. I would say just analytically that the Republican Party is more thoroughly conservative and the Democratic Party is more thoroughly liberal today than has been the case for most of modern history.

I was "Never Trump." But it turned out never republican was really the theme of this election.

That's always been the case in America; there's been a big spectrum in how much people are interested in American politics.