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Mad Dogs and Obamacare Repealers

Explain It to Me

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The Importance of Trust in Donald Trump

I think George W. Bush is an interesting parallel because in some ways, the analog would be ifGeorge W. Bush was asked, hey, the US has lost 5,000 people in Iraq and he said, no, we haven't. And just denied the existence of that number, which Donald Trump has done with statistics. We can't imagine Donald Trump acknowledging the existence of those numbers being real. He will keep digging on something false. He does not want to dig on something true. If you're the average American and all you hear is this barrage of denials, I think it's very easy even if he filed the news to get lost in it.

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