Blow, Blow, Blow A Presidency Away

Events outpace the ability to keep up with them. Even at this moment as this is written, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has announced a formal multi-committee impeachment inquiry; President Trump says he will release the full transcript of  his July 25 “perfect call” with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and the House Intelligence Committee says it has heard from the whistleblower’s attorney to arrange his testimony.

While all of this will likely change hour by hour and day by day with much more to come over many months just 13 months from the 2020 election, there are some fundamentals worth observing.

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​​And the Candidate Is: Part IX

Labor Day has come and gone as the pundits reminded us that by long tradition it marks the real start of the presidential campaign.

But wait, the presidential election is 14 months from now, this is 2019, not 2020. Don’t they mean Labor Day 2020? Yes, but in reality a Labor Day start to presidential campaigns, all campaigns really, is long since irrelevant fiction.

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