Michael Gerson
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Preening bluster does not make up for Trump's willful ignoranceSep 25, 2016 1:00 am - Of all the absurdities in Donald Trump's rapid political rise, none is more puzzling than his reputation for toughness in the war against terrorism. Trump is a real est...
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Trump benefits from the ills of ObamacareSep 21, 2016 1:00 am - In the event of a victory by Donald Trump in November, political analysis will take on a forensic cast. How did establishment politics - first in the GOP primaries, then...
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A conservative cry from the heartSep 14, 2016 1:00 am - Elements of the American right are seized with a fashionable despair, employed as a get-out-the-vote operation. "I think this will be the last election if I don't win," ...
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The post-9/11 war that we can winSep 09, 2016 1:00 am - Fifteen years after one of the most vivid and violent days in American history, there is still a debate over what the events of Sept. 11, 2001, actually mean. For some ...
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Time for Fox News to build on strengths, not on angerSep 07, 2016 1:00 am - Of the 2016 election's lightning storm of shocks, few will have more lasting political consequence than the discrediting of the main media organs of movement conservatis...
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Does Trump know what it means to preach law and order?Aug 30, 2016 1:00 am - So far, Donald Trump's outreach to African-Americans has consisted of stereotyping them as impoverished, as attending failed schools and as unemployed, and then asking w...
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Shifting blame for a Trump loss helps no oneAug 23, 2016 1:00 am - By Michael Gerson With defeat now the likely outcome for the Republican presidential nominee, the blame shifting has begun early and in earnest. To some partisans such ...
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Why young voters find Trump a turn-offAug 16, 2016 1:00 am - People always remember their first presidential vote - their first participation in the largest decision of American democracy. In high school, I was a rather awkwar...
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Clinton's 'short-circuited' apologyAug 09, 2016 1:00 am - One of the most unintentionally revealing moments of Hillary Clinton's campaign so far came during her recent, unconvincing explanation of the email affair: "I may have ...
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It's not too late to repudiate - and it could regain soul of GOPAug 03, 2016 1:00 am - MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Every nation has sacred places, where history has stopped and lingered, and visitors are hushed by memories of redemptive sacrifice. One is the balcony...