Neil H. Buchanan

Democrats seem to believe their good manners will be rewarded by voters.

Democrats who try to bargain with Republicans might be played for suckers.

Democrats have been trying for years to get Republicans to spend on infrastructure.

Trump’s mantra is: "If you win, I lose, so I'm going to win. And you can't do a thing about it."

Republicans changed the rules to exclude as many Democratic voters as they could.

Trump's presidency brings the threat of abuses of power not seen since Nixon.

How could they ignore the racism and misogyny that spewed from Trump’s mouth?

It would be a windfall for Wall Street, with little increase in public investment.

A vast bulwark of rule-abiding Americans stand in the way of a Trump dictatorship.

Trump only just eked out a win, and we should not let anyone forget it.

Trump and the Republicans have every reason to change the rules to stay in power.

Imagine the Republican howling at Sanders calling himself a democratic socialist.

What can Congress or the courts do if he says he is going to violate the law?

Clinton's supposed scandals never amounted to anything.

Being a real man is about self-control and rising above petty provocations.

The young will be stuck with the results of the election for many more years than the rest of us.

Young voters are turned off by Trump, but can’t get excited about Clinton.

Trump and the Republicans have, predictably, overplayed their hand.

Conservatives are obsessed with forcing people to use certain words and phrases.

Poorly worded poll questions set up a plague-on-both-your-houses narrative.

Putin and/or Assange thought they could bring down Clinton by hacking into her emails.

A good idea has been defeated by the superficiality of the media’s political reportage.

The Republican nominee says his defeat will prove the election was rigged.

Neil Buchanan asks, Where is today’s FDR? Where is Churchill?

Even the people rooting for Clinton are willing to call Trump the winner when he lies with bravado.

Trump stood there and scowled while deciding when to interrupt Clinton next.

Despite all evidence to the contrary, Trump believes that cutting rich people’s taxes will unleash nirvana.

Trump is a 70-year-old schoolyard bully, bragging to everyone that other people are weak.

Trump's default mode is to describe all unwelcome facts as the result of cheating by his opponents.

Clinton is giving aid and comfort to her congressional candidates' enemies to win an election that is already hers to lose.

Social Security and Medicare are props in the relentless morality play about big government's supposed fecklessness.

Trump’s first go at tax policy was merely a scaled-up version of Jeb Bush's ridiculous more-and-bigger-tax-cuts-for-the-rich plan.