Tag: bipartisanship

Harris does not seem to be fully in control of the task, which is the ultimate test of her crisis management skills.

President Donald Trump’s overt support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and vice-versa, solidified a dangerous public image in recent years that Israel favors the Republican Party.

The third branch of government that the Founding Fathers envisioned as impartial is now altered, and the effects of that will be seen for decades ahead, in great part due to the actions of the senator from hell.

McCain represented everything that Trump is not, everything that the United States no longer is.

Had Trump suddenly found his inner moderate; the thoughtful, sensitive, nuanced, civic-minded statesman struggling to emerge from the cocoon of vulgar, bombastic, billionaire and reality TV celebrity?

The United States has become a country of deep-seated political division where not even a surging economy, a burst in consumer and investor confidence, can put a smile on any Democrat’s face or a positive line in their talking points.

Perhaps Obama understands all this. Perhaps he knows that his political vision failed to heal America's divisions, but used his speech to make clear the kind of politics he believed should ultimately prevail.