It's not just that Trump is a bad president. It's that he's a bad person.
Ezra Klein
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Ezra Klein
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Joined January 2009
- "I worked very hard for it" is the worst possible justification for being a billionaire. You know who works very hard? Single mothers working two minimum wage jobs with just-in-time scheduling and a bus commute.
- In the last few years we've seen: - The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer - The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC - The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi - Multiple assassination attempts against Trump - The assassination
- Elizabeth Warren is simply the best policy communicator in politics now.
- Donald Trump does not want to be in charge of any of this. He wants to play president on TV. He doesn't want responsibility for governance in a time of crisis, and in every way he can, he's refusing to do that job, and lashing out at those who ask him to do it.
- It isn't an accident that Georgia might flip. And it's not just demographic change. It's also Georgia's most prominent Democrat being absolutely committed to democracy itself as her political project, and spending years organizing there.
- The problem here isn't Donald Trump. If he were ranting alone, none of this would matter. The problem is the Republican Party that is indulging him, and trying to electorally profit off him, no matter the cost to the country.
- I'd like to hear some Republican senators articulate, as a benchmark, what presidential conduct they would consider impeachable.
- If the person who got the most votes became president, Trump would never have become president. Most Americans didn't want this. They saw that this was a bad idea, and they were overruled by a bad institution. The result has been a calamity.
- Susan Page should insist Pence actually answers her questions.
- The question isn’t whether Solemaini was a bad guy. The questions are: 1. What are the likely consequences of his assassination? 2. Do you trust the Trump administration to have planned for those consequences and to manage what comes next?
- Elizabeth Warren unleashed is a remarkable thing to watch.
- Voting "no" on impeachment because insurrectionists are threatening you is the very definition of letting the terrorists win
