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If rural America is the only ‘real America’ for the GOP, the party is destined to decline.
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I suspect Biden doesn’t want to pack the Supreme Court. He probably doesn’t have the votes, and a fight over the issue would delay the promised ‘return to normalcy.’
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Wealthy and powerful Americans sometimes suffer from VIP syndrome, buying the diagnoses and treatments they want — often to their own detriment.
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The most likely scenario for the Trump-Biden debate is that these two septuagenarian men will simply confirm what everybody already thinks about them.
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A few Republicans could agree to postpone the replacement of Justice Ginsburg in exchange for a few Democrats agreeing never to vote for a court-packing scheme.
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We are already too partisan and divided. Eliminating the electoral college would magnify the discord.
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Trump has acted as a giant magnet next to our political compass. He serves as the true north for much of the American right, which means much of the left reflexively marches south.
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American liberalism’s Achilles’ heel has long been a reluctance, sometimes a flat-out inability, to criticize radicals on the left.
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Republicans point to Michael Dukakis’ 17-point lead in the summer before he lost to George H.W. Bush. But Donald Trump is a very different candidate.
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Trump rode the Obama birther conspiracy theory to prominence on the right. That won’t happen this time with Kamala Harris.
![1988: The image of George H.W. Bush towering over his Democratic opponent, Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, might be the second-most notable contrast in debate history (after the first Nixon-Kennedy debate). What you might remember: At the start of the second meeting held at UCLAs Pauley Pavilion -- CNN newsman Bernard Shaw asked Dukakis, an opponent of the death penalty, one of the more shocking questions in debate history: Governor, if [your wife] Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer? Dukakis bland response sealed his fate in the general election. What you might have forgotten: Just about everything else in the two debates.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/b490406/2147483647/strip/true/crop/586x391+0+17/resize/840x560!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F79%2F73%2F27f118f5a47485c01012372b100f%2Fla-pres-debate1988-i5paygkf)
