“The ’92 convention didn’t look like a big-tent affair. Almost no people of color, and ringing denunciations of the “gay agenda. But at least it had a platform that conventioneers could debate.”

Last week a court awarded her $90,000 for the grief she endured at Klein Oak High in Spring, Texas, when she refused to stand for the pledge.

“I know a lot of Americans who have never darkened a church door and who show more fealty to moral standards and basic decency than those who attend religiously. For some, Senator, religion is just show biz.”

“Any strategist will acknowledge a problem when a political playbook grows yellow and weathered. Fortunately for the GOP, the 21st century discovery of transgender people in our midst provides for newly Xeroxed strategies on crisp, white paper.

DeSantis has made petulance in a pandemic one of his defining qualities. He’s decided that fighting Anthony Fauci is more important than fighting the disease. Talk about theater.

His guy – Donald Trump, the man for whom Fox News’ propaganda brigade has cast its lot for five devoted years – owns Tucker. He is, in the words of George Will, one of Trump’s “poodles.”

“Denazification and demilitarization.” neighbor nation. Nazism – those frightened masses cramming the exits to Poland. Militarization – those hunting rifles dusted off to confront invading tanks.

When he said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” Martin Luther King Jr. was as serious about patience as he was about persistence.