Michael Gerson
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The GOP has two fevers that need to breakApr 13, 2016 1:00 am - By MICHAEL GERSON Some Trump-obsessed, hysterical nitwits have overstated the case that the Republican Party may be on the verge of self-annihilation. "If Trump were ...
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Hillary Clinton's antiseptic campaignApr 10, 2016 1:00 am - "What we are seeing is post-purchase cognitive dissonance," a well-connected former Democratic official told me. Hillary Clinton has effectively secured her party's nomi...
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Trump: the liberal stereotype of RepublicansApr 05, 2016 1:00 am - This campaign season has offered an unexpected form of reality television entertainment: Watching the light of discovery and calculation in Donald Trump's eyes when he i...
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Gerson: Limbaugh's misguided view of GOP boosts TrumpMar 28, 2016 11:00 pm - If Donald Trump becomes the Republican nominee, one of the main reasons will be that many in the conservative movement found him acceptable. And one of the main reasons ...
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Anti-Muslim rhetoric profits the enemyMar 27, 2016 1:00 am - After the Brussels murders, and the Paris murders, and the San Bernardino murders and dozens of previous, tragic iterations of innocent blood on the sidewalk, the two le...
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The empty promises of Trump and SandersMar 24, 2016 1:00 am - In a time of brushfire populism, the problem is not the populace, it is the populists who seek to lead it. The two candidates who call themselves revolutionaries - Berni...
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The stain of accommodating TrumpMar 18, 2016 1:00 am - MICHAEL GERSON COLUMN (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Normally advance for Friday, March 18, 2016, and thereafter.) (For Gerson clients only) The stain of accommodating Trumpa B...
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Trump the demagogue that America's founders fearedMar 11, 2016 12:00 am - "The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations." - Edmund Bur...
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Could Condoleezza Rice save the day?Mar 06, 2016 12:00 am - By Michael Gerson The GOP is not facing a debate over policy, but rather a hostile takeover by a pernicious force. Traditional Republicans are now presented with a se...
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Trump's intoxication with power is frightening to considerMar 02, 2016 12:00 am - It is the great, democratic virtue of presidential campaigns that they subject candidates to every kind of stress, eventually revealing their core, their character. For ...