Robert Costa

No one knows what's going to happen, but it would be a safe bet that Americans aren't going to have a chance to vote for a real progressive for president in a very long time, probably longer than I'll be a sentient being. Or maybe not.

Early in February, I wrote about why I had decided to cancel a trip to the beautiful Dordogne region of France. Yesterday, French President Emmanuel Macron locked down the country "for 15 days" (it will likely me much longer).

Yesterday, two of the Washington Post's star political reporters, Robert Costa and Philip Rucker, wrote that Republican anxiety is spiking as Trump faces growing legal and political perils and asserted that "a growing number of Republicans fear that a battery of new revelations in the far-reaching Russia investigation has dramatically heighte

I find Robert Costa's reporting for the Washington Post worthwhile; and his contributions on MSNBC are better than most. He's a 31 year old reporter who comes from a rock background in the Philly suburbs. Only thing... his background wasn't just rock. It was also conservative. When I first noticed him he was the relatively sane writer at the right-wing National Review.

The quote in the subject line was something reporter Michelle Goldberg said to Chris Hayes last night, about Prince Jared or, as we know him, Kushner-in-law. Her point was that the Kushners-- like the Trumps-- may be able to afford to clean up nicely but that they are nothing but vicious, merciless predators. And now the law is catching up with them (again).

Although all of his Republican opponents repeatedly called Trump a liar, the epithet didn't stick, at least not among Republican primary voters. Only 9% of Trump's fact-checked campaign statements have been rated "true" (2%) or "mostly true" (7%) by PolitiFact, but it was only Trump's branding of the immensely dislikable Ted Cruz as "Lyin' Ted" that stuck with the voters.