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Trump Time Capsule #135: Howard Stern Tapes
Some recordings of Donald Trump’s appearances on the Howard Stern show from the 1990s onward are already famous. That is where Trump said in 2002“I guess so” when Stern asked if invading Iraq was a...
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Trump Time Capsule #136: 'She'd Be in Jail'
I think I have taken off half my remaining life expectancy in the process, but I watched the second debate this evening and did a million-item tweetstorm in real time. Actually, only 97 items, which...
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Trump Time Capsule #137: Primate Dominance Moves at the Debate
In my current cover story on the debates, I quote noted primate expert and anthropologist Jane Goodall:“In many ways the performances of Donald Trump remind me of male chimpanzees and their dominance...
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Trump Time Capsule #138: Et Tu, Speaker Ryan?
I may have to adjust the standard sign-off line for the hallowed Time Capsule™ series.The usual approach is to note how many days are left until the election—as I write, it’s just 28 days and a few...
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'Last Night's Debate Was a Triggering Event'
In installment #137, I mentioned Jane Goodall’s prescience in foreseeing primal-dominance moves from Donald Trump if he had a chance to move around in the same debate space with Hillary Clinton. Now a...
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Donald Trump and the Generals
In last night’s debate, the Republican nominee said, apropos military policy: “General George Patton, General Douglas MacArthur are spinning in their grave at the stupidity of what we’re doing in the...
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Trump Time Capsule #139: Unshackled
Donald Trump early this morningThe standard throughout this Time Capsule series has been: what is happening in this Age of Trump that has not happened before in our politics.Without further...
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Trump Time Capsule #140: 'Lock Her Up'
One of the few “genteel” aspects of the Republican convention in Cleveland three months ago was Donald Trump’s response, in his acceptance speech, to the boisterous chants of “Lock her up!” that were...
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And Now for Something Saner and More Positive: Fresno, Erie
Not to over-personalize, but I feel as if my life in the past few weeks recapitulates the argument my wife Deb and I have been making in our American Futures travels.When I’ve been embroiled in...
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Trump Time Capsule #141: 'Selling Their Souls'
Seven days ago, back in the innocent times of early October, I began installment #132 with this paragraph, in its entirety: “Good God.”That was a few hours after the release (by the Washington Post) of...
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Trump Time Capsule #142: Drug Test
To a first order of approximation, everything that Donald Trump has said about his opponents should be understood as projection, in the psychological sense of the term. That is, any defect Trump has...
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Trump Time Capsule #143: Rigged
The greatest threat Donald Trump poses to the republic is that he might become president. With each passing hour and excess, and each new on-the-record witness to his mistreatment of women, the...
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Why Does Trump 'Project' So Much? A Hypothesis
Kurt Andersen on Twitter, on the limits on Donald Trump’s self-awareness.In installment #142 of the Time Capsule series, I argue that “projection,” in the psychological sense, is the default...
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Trump Time Capsule #144: 'Animals'
The Republican nominee, soon after news came in of a crime in North Carolina.The very hardest thing about being president is that almost all of the choices you get to make are no-win, impossible...
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More on Trump's Penchant for 'Projection'
In Time Capsule installment #142, and in a followup item in this thread, I mentioned Donald Trump’s penchant for “projection”—blaming his opponents for flaws he very obviously has himself.Seth...
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Immigration in America Is Not Broken
Immigration has proven to be one of the most divisive issues in the 2016 presidential race. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have expressed that the system is broken, but a consensus on any...
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20 Days to Go: The Death of a Star?
Details from online Oxford University astrophysics course, showing how a supernova puffs itself up into a giant fireball before it explodes and dies. Hmmm, why does this image come to mind?...
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Trump Time Capsule #145: 'Nasty Woman'
With two and a half weeks to go, the debate phase of the competition is at last at its end. In real time last night I did an endless tweet-storm commentary whose beginning you can find here and that...
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Trump Time Capsule #146: Al Smith Dinner
“Light” events are some of the heaviest lifting in political life. Comedy is hard to begin with, and for the kinds of people involved in politics, jokes are vastly more difficult to write or deliver...
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Is America in a Boiling Fury About Immigration? Not the America I Have Seen
Over the past year-plus my wife Deb and I have been arguing that the “build a wall!”-style anti-immigration furor in Republican party politics does not match the lived reality of the parts of the...
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