Opinion · 116th Congress
While Trump tweets, Pelosi prays and Schiff parodies
OPINION — Every now and then, politics simply goes off the rails, plowing through the collective American psyche like a runaway train.
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OPINION — Every now and then, politics simply goes off the rails, plowing through the collective American psyche like a runaway train.
If Pelosi can keep her caucus between those guard rails, she’ll have managed the almost impossible and kept the integrity of her branch of government intact in the process.
As a record-breaking number of travelers hit the road, the rails and the skies for Thanksgiving, it is probably with no small amount of dread.
Sure, the Democrats, if they take back the House, could go off the rails as the Republicans did in impeaching Bill Clinton.
Instead, it’s like we’re living through a mashup of Hollywood’s best (or worst) 1960s-era government-off-the-rails films: “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Seven Days in May” and “Dr.
He rails against leaks and still picks up the phone and calls reporters himself. His staff is spinning out of control. He won’t stop tweeting.