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Trump Time Capsule #79->∞: Shakeup
I’ve innocently spent a few days off line, in the same city (Erie, Pa.) where Donald Trump spoke this weekend but seeing a completely different prospect from the one he described. And I log back to on...
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Trump Time Capsule #80: Manafort, Adieu
No larger point for now (still on the road, out all days on interviews in Erie), but here we note for the record the second major change in Trump campaign leadership within roughly two months.In June,...
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Gawker, Hating the Media, Free Trade, and F-35: Today's Trips Down Memory Lane
Here are some items from the archive that bear on the moment’s news:Gawker and the future of the news. This past week Gawker went down, driven in that direction by the punitive Hulk Hogan lawsuit...
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Trump Time Capsule #81: 'What the Hell Do You Have to Lose?'
Donald Trump’s comments last night in Dimondale, Michigan, have already received a lot of attention. They’re worth noting as part of his campaign’s evolution, and worth watching in the video below, for...
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A Black Trump Supporter Weighs In
Last night, in chapter #81 of the Trump Time Capsule series, I argued that Donald Trump’s recent “outreach” to black voters amounted to talking about African Americans as a problem group, rather than...
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Trump Time Capsule #82: Illness, Immigration, and TV Shows
Reminder: The original idea behind this Time Capsule series was to record, in real time, what the American public knows and learns about Donald Trump while it is deciding whether he should become...
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Trump Time Capsule #83: Rent Is Too Damn High
I am pivoting toward a sanity-protecting, time-preserving policy of simply noting “norm-changing” activities from the Trump campaign. That is, words or actions for which there is no known precedent...
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Trump Time Capsule #84*: We Didn't Start the Movement
The video below is not by Donald Trump or from the Trump campaign. That’s why I put an asterisk in the title line. To be clear, he has no known official involvement with it whatsoever.But in a...
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Trump Time Capsule #85: The Immigration Pivot
The previous 84 items in this series cover developments that might concern Donald Trump’s opponents. Tonight we have one that might concern his most fervent supporters.In an interview aired Wednesday...
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Erie and America
Through the past week that my wife Deb and I spent in Erie, Pennsylvania, it was hard not to keep comparing national-level politics, including all its frictions, with the local-level handling of such...
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Trump Time Capsule #86: Presidential Economists Offer No Support
Early this month, a group of 50 national-security officials who had served in Republican administrations—Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush I, Bush II—released a statement opposing Donald Trump and saying that...
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Trump Time Capsule #87: Land of 10,000 Lakes but Not Even 1 Republican on the...
The sample ballots recently sent out by the Minnesota Secretary of State included, as presidential candidates: Hillary Clinton of the Democrats, Gary Johnson of the Libertarians, Jill Stein of the...
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Trump Time Capsule #88: Crickets
As with a previous “Crickets” installment, #13, this one notes something we have not heard, and whose absence is remarkable in the history of presidential campaigning.Today the Democratic nominee for...
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The (Intentional?) Silence of the Republicans
Last night, in Time Capsule #88, I noted the deafening silence of Republican officialdom, after Hillary Clinton delivered her calmly devastating indictment of Donald Trump’s racist themes.After this...
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Trump Time Capsule #89: The Medical Report
What Trump announced on Twitter, before he went to his doctor’s office and, with limo running outside, told the doctor what he would like the letter to say.Every few entries in this series, I have...
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Trump Time Capsule #90: The Death of Nykea Aldridge
From Donald Trump on TwitterWhen news broke about the horrific mass shooting in Orlando ten weeks ago, Donald Trump’s first reaction, as noted in Time Capsule #19, was to send out a Tweet saying...
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Accountability for Trump
A thought for the morning from one of the two people who might become president. This is one of the Tweets that appears to come from Trump himself. How do we know? It’s from his Android phone, rather...
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Notes From the Rest of the Country: 'Now That I've Got a Look at This Place,...
My wife Deb and I are on the road again this week, but as a reminder of the ongoing theme:People across the country are aware of the serious economic, political, cultural, social, public-health,...
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Trump Time Capsule #91: Debate Camp
John Kennedy, who had served as a Congressman and Senator, felt he had to practice for his presidential debate in 1960. Richard Nixon, who had spent eight years as Vice President, practiced too. Donald...
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America by Air: Alongside a Rainstorm
Genuine thunderstorms, of the type that form a long line when a cold front is moving across the country into warmer, wetter air, or that pop up as isolated cloudbursts on summer afternoons, are weather...
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