American - Journalist | March 13, 1950 - June 21, 2018
If you control one house of Congress, you cannot abolish something like Obamacare, no matter how much pressure you apply.
Charles Krauthammer
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If you get a call to go to a certain place in the middle of the night to pick up stolen goods, and it turns out the stolen goods don't show up but the cops show up, I think you're going to have a very weak story saying, 'Well, I got swindled here.'
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The way that Trump spoke about the outside world was the most aggressive, most hyper-nationalist, and in some ways most hostile of any inaugural address I think since the Second World War.
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Trump's relentless public humiliation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions was clearly intended to get him to resign.
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Every once in a while, the Senate seems to remember that it belongs to a coequal branch.
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Trump is a systemic stress test.
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Ronald Reagan was so self-contained and impenetrable that his official biographer was practically driven mad trying to figure him out.
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For every moment of triumph, there is an unequal and opposite feeling of despair. Take that iconic photograph of Muhammad Ali standing triumphantly over the prostrate, semiconscious wreckage of Sonny Liston. Great photo. Now think of Liston. Do the pleasure/pain calculus.
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I don't think the West needs to apologize - or pay - for having invented the steam engine.
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Trump's behavior is deeply disturbing but hardly surprising. His mercurial nature is not the product of a post-inaugural adder sting at Mar-a-Lago. It's been there all along. And the American electorate chose him nonetheless.
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In retrospect, the populist panic may have been overblown. Regarding Brexit, for example, the shock exaggerated its meaning. Because it was so unexpected, it became a sensation.
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The normalization of Trump is one indicator that there may be less to the populist insurrection than imagined.
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