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" President Trump is right about at least one thing: No matter what he does, America cannot stop talking about him. "
Kristen Soltis Anderson
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" If there is one issue where one could justifiably assume that Republicans are all in agreement, it is on lowering taxes. "
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" Donald Trump, having spent decades in the public eye as an entertainer, may not understand what the nuclear triad is, or what America's 'first use' nuclear policy is, or why starting a trade war would be a disaster. But he does understand storytelling, the power of a clear narrative, and the importance of stirring emotion. "
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" For some in my generation, Sept. 11th was a moment of political awakening. For others, the Iraq War or the financial crisis or the rise of Obama were the major events of their teenage years that began to lay the foundation for their views. "
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" Donald Trump has had political success positioning himself as a 'law-and-order' candidate. "
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" Winning feels great, and everybody loves a winner. But the very best figure out what's coming next and don't assume they've got the winning formula forever. "
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" In 2014, topics like Black Lives Matter, the Middle East, and Ebola were prominent in the national discussion, with mentions of then-President Barack Obama making up a relatively small slice of the discussion on news twitter. "
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Small
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" In the 2012 election, the polls that had made Mitt Romney so confident that he was going to win were his own internal polls, based on models that failed to accurately estimate voter turnout. But the public polls, especially statewide polls, painted a fairly accurate picture of how the electoral college might go. "
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" Lots of folks still do watch TV, but I think understanding the future of politics means understanding where folks' attention is being paid and delivering your message and your ideas in that space. "
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Politics
Think
Space
" There's no counting the number of times the media have asked, 'Will this be the thing that drives Donald Trump's supporters away from him? Is this finally the time?' "
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Him
Number
" Millennials are not deeply familiar with school choice, and have some reservations, especially about the types of institutions that a student might choose to attend with taxpayer dollars. "
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Some
Choice
School
" Republicans can't always agree on where to cut spending. They certainly can't agree on what to do about entitlements. There isn't a unified foreign policy vision, and there's no consensus on immigration reform. "
Kristen Soltis Anderson
Immigration
Always
Vision
" Obama's numbers fell by a slightly larger amount over his first few months because he enjoyed much more support right at the start from Republicans, support that eroded quickly. "
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Support
Right
Over
" Being a skeptical and thoughtful consumer of polls is essential. "
Kristen Soltis Anderson
Being
Thoughtful
Consumer
" Hillary Clinton famously embraced the Trump-originated label 'nasty woman' as yet another way to show just how bad Donald Trump was to women. "
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Way
Bad
Women
" Those who are able to afford to live in a neighborhood with 'good schools' will do so, knowing that a good education is the key to good opportunity for their children. "
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Children
Education
Opportunity
" President Trump rightly points out that law enforcement is mostly made up of good people putting themselves in harm's way to protect us. He lauds the men and women in blue and often talks about the need to make it easier for the cops to do their jobs. "
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Blue
Law
People
" Conservative women often make the case that 'all issues are women's issues,' and are sometimes derided by those on the Left when they do so. "
Kristen Soltis Anderson
Left
Women
Sometimes
" There is nothing just or fair about what happened to Jordan Edwards. And his story is yet another in a long line of tragedies that now powerfully remind us of the long way we still have to go in creating a fair and just relationship between law enforcement, our criminal justice system, and the public our laws are supposed to protect. "
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Justice
Long
Relationship
" I dreamed of being like Sam Seaborn on 'The West Wing'. "
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West Wing
Being
Like
" Even when we're not talking about Trump, we're talking about Trump. "
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Even
About
Not Talking
" For Trump, the story is everything. There is no real plan to defeat the villains that Trump tees up, of course. "
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Defeat
Plan
Real
" On paper, Emmanuel Macron should be a candidate tailor-made for young voters. He himself is young. He pushes for more entrepreneurship, modernization, and a loosening of regulations that prevent young workers from working as they please when they please. "
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Workers
Working
He
" The robots are coming, whether we like it or not, and will change our economy in dramatic ways. "
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Robots
Our
Change
" I do not think it is a coincidence that young people gravitated toward populist voices in the French election and that the two issue positions where Donald Trump and young voters seem to agree most - global engagement and trade - are rooted in populism. "
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Young
Trade
People
" Trump won 44.4 percent of votes in Virginia in 2016. At press time, Ed Gillespie had won 45 percent of the vote in 2017. "
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Votes
Vote
Virginia
" Either people are changing their minds about Trump, or increasing numbers of his supporters are deciding it is too embarrassing to admit they support him. Neither is a particularly good position to be in. "
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Support
People
Numbers
" It was weird that I was a young person who was Republican. And I wanted to get at the heart of why it was that so many people of my generation thought that being Republican just wasn't for them. They thought that conservative ideas just weren't for them. "
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Weird
Heart
People
" In 2012, when Mitt Romney named Russia as our greatest geopolitical foe, Democrats scoffed and accused Republicans of trying to ignite a new Cold War. "
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Cold
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" I grew up in Orlando, Florida, and I joined the debate team right around the time of the 2000 election. "
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Up
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" The reality is that the Republican Party may have unified government but is not unified enough on many major signature policy areas. "
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