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There's no liberal equivalent of Donald Trump.

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Kevin Drum
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 19
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On the Medicare side, they limited their cuts to far in the future, and to providers.
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I read quite a few complaints last night about Lester Holt’s choice of debate topics. Liberals wanted to know why climate change didn’t come up. Conservatives thought there should have been a question about abortion.
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If Trump really opposed the war in Iraq, all he has to do is show us the evidence. It would take five minutes. He hasn’t done it. He’s lying.
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If Democrats vote against everyone sight unseen, then Republicans will vote for everyone sight unseen. However, if Democrats demonstrate that they’re considering each candidate on the merits, they have at least a fighting chance of defeating one or two of Trump’s nominees.
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Republican voters already hated Democrats so much that [Bill] Clinton and [Barack] Obama didn't really have much impact.
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Betsy DeVos, for example, has shown that she’s flatly ignorant of an astounding amount of basic education policy. It might be possible to persuade two or three Republicans to oppose her on these grounds - but only if the entire confirmation process isn’t a pure partisan battle.
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Donald Trump says he's going to change the no-guns policy at his resorts. I can't wait to see that.
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Note to conservatives: sometimes you just have to give up. Do you really care that much about killing lots of bad guys as opposed to letting them rot in prison for the rest of their lives? It might be time to let go and save your energy for other battles. This one is getting absurd.
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The folks who want to be left alone are the ones who actually get most of the work done, but they’re still mocked as drones or beavers or trolls. That’s bad enough, but now technology is helping the extroverts in their long twilight campaign against actually concentrating on anything.
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Despite more than a year of spittle-flecked fury at Hillary Clinton for using a private email server, most Trump voters probably don’t even know what a private server is. Nor do they care. It was just a buzzword that somehow meant Hillary was a crook.
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I think [Hillary] Clinton owes the press some thanks for going so far overboard on the emails and the Clinton Foundation over the past year.
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I've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity.
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In America, the economy is simply nowhere near bad enough to serve as the base of any kind of serious political revolution.
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[David] Muir tried four or five times to get a straight answer about [Donald] Trump's idiotic claim that 3-5 million noncitizens voted, and Trump just flatly wouldn't engage.
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They [Republicans] assume that military action always shows strength, while avoiding military action always shows weakness. That's just crazy.
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Actually, I think we all understand just fine why Donald Trump is president: because he ran a racist, boorish, epically mendacious campaign and Republicans all decided to go along with it. And even that wouldn’t have been enough if Trump hadn’t gotten some additional help from his pals James Comey and Vladimir Putin.
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I watch CNN, it's so much anger and hatred and just the hatred.
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You have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves...
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You're more likely to vote Democratic if you hate Republicans than if you love Democrats, and vice versa.
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The WHO took care to explicitly say that processed meat didn’t rank alongside smoking when it comes to cancer risk.
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