Dylan Matthews
Former Senior Correspondent and Lead Writer
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This should be a Republican-friendly year. Then Trump happened.
Milwaukee erupts after a police shooting; more uncomfortable revelations about Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia; flooding in Louisiana.
Thailand’s tourist regions bombarded with 11 small bombs in two days; Donald Trump’s extremely narrow path to victory.
His base is not poor whites. It’s way more complicated than that.
The DEA decides to keep marijuana under tight (but slightly less so) legal control; Assad is probably using chemical weapons again on Syrians.
The US Department of Justice releases its civil rights report on the Baltimore Police Department; things are heating up between Russia and Ukraine in Crimea again.
Her rhetoric on guns has shifted a lot.
Donald Trump might have just implied that someone should shoot Hillary Clinton (???); the renewed Russian-Turkish friendship is bad news for Europe; the US is crushing it at the Olympics so far.
And it’s all really, really expensive.
“The unpleasant reality that I have had to accept is that there will be no ‘new’ Donald Trump.”