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“And when you make the direst predictions, you needlessly put your credibility on the line. The stock market didn’t go into free fall after Trump’s election. We’re not at war with North Korea. When you extrapolate too wildly into the future, you sometimes wind up distracting people from what’s happening in the here and now.”
— Frank Bruni, Opinion | How to Lose the Midterms and Re-elect Trump
Tagged: Trump, 2018 Elections
“I worked on the presidential campaign in 2004,’ Howard Wolfson said, referring to John Kerry’s contest against George W. Bush. He added that he was also ‘active in discussing’ John McCain when he ran for the presidency in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012.

‘And I’m quite confident I employed language that, in retrospect, was hyperbolic and inaccurate, language that cheapened my ability — our ability — to talk about this moment with accuracy and credibility.’

Did Democrats cry wolf so many times before Trump that no one hears or heeds them now?”
— Frank Bruni, Crying Wolf, Then Confronting Trump
Tagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump
“Applause. Greater brand exposure. A new layer of perks atop an existence already lavish with them. Utter saturation of Americans’ consciousness. These were Trump's foremost goals. Governing wasn’t, and that was obvious in his haziness and dishonesty before Election Day and in his laziness and defiance after.

He opened the White House door wide to unmoored and unserious people, most recently Anthony Scaramucci, who, during his nanosecond as communications director, disparaged Bannon as someone engaged primarily in a limber act of self-gratification. That was on the record. Then Bannon disparaged his administration adversaries as being so threatened by him that they were ‘wetting themselves.’ That was on the record, too.”
— Frank Bruni, Opinion | The Week When President Trump Resigned
Tagged: US Politics, Charlottesville violence, Donald Trump
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