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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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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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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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I watch CNN, it's so much anger and hatred and just the hatred.
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Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.
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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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[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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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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I hate the idea that we might lose even a few talented future leaders because they fell for Bernie Sanders's spiel and then got discouraged when it didn't pan out.
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The younger you are, the more likely you are to have grown up in a (mostly) lead-free environment, and that means you're less likely to have committed a felony or gotten sent to prison.
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I can't fault [Donald] Trump for firing [Craig] Deare. Then again, I also can't fault Deare for going berserk. Sometimes a marriage just doesn't work.
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Apple is happy to allow users more control over their devices as long as it also happens to benefit Apple. If it doesn't, then tough.
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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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We stiffened the penalties for fraud, we extended nationwide efforts to make sure that payments are accurate and they closed a loophole in which people were gaming the system. We didn't change eligibility requirements or reduce the level of benefits.
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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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You're more likely to vote Democratic if you hate Republicans than if you love Democrats, and vice versa.
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Marco Rubio turns a question about missing Senate votes into an attack on the mainstream media.
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Smart hiring managers in the modern world should be asking, “How long can you concentrate on a task before you have to take a break?” I wonder how many of them do?
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The plain fact is that recent college grads aren’t in massive pain. They suffered during the Great Recession like everyone else, but all told, they probably suffered a little less than most other groups.
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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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