No matter the evidence and no matter how damning the information may be, it’s unlikely that the American people will rise up and seek to banish Trump and his followers from public life.
While the success or failure of Build Back Better has important consequences for the nation, it will likely have limited direct effects on midterm or presidential elections.
The U.S. president's biggest policy promise during the 2020 campaign was perhaps his vow to attack COVID-19 in a professional and competent way.
People are far more interested in the candidates than they are in policy and they’re most interested in the candidates who are already well known, whether or not they’re serious contenders.
One thing that Trump made clear was that nothing in the constitutional system makes presidents respect the U.S. political system and respond to that system’s incentives.
Trump had given himself no room for error. He built no relationships with any Democrats, and relatively few with Republicans.
Not only did Donald Trump rant and rave at his first presidential news conference, he denied he was ranting and raving — which is even more bizarre than actually ranting and raving.
If Republicans don't demand that Donald Trump bring in a tough chief of staff who knows Washington, they'll only have themselves to blame for the next scandal, and the next one, and the one after that.
Hillary Clinton has the Democratic nomination all but locked up, and Donald Trump is back on track.
Support for airstrikes against the Islamic State does not prove that Americans are war-happy. It may simply reflect that drone wars or airstrikes only touch a small segment of the U.S. population, and become just another issue people think about only when pollsters call.
