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There Is No Single Field Of Activity, Not A Single Institution, Free Of The Most Brutal Sort Of Corruption. Russia Has Bred A World-class Mafia.

There Are Systemic, Painful Problems Of Globalization And De-industrialization That Cannot Be Solved With A Phone Call Or A Tweet Or An Angry Speech Or Trying To Isolate The Press And The First Amendment. Sooner Or Later, The Donald Trump Show, Which Is A Projection Of Strength And Authority, Will Have To Deliver To His Voters. And If He Doesn't, In Very Real Terms, If He Can't Supersede A Situation Where A President Cut The Unemployment Rate In Half, If He Can't Do Better, If He Can't Open Factories And All The Rest That He's Promised, Then I Think He's In Trouble.

I Use Social Media Every Day. I Don't Have A Twitter Account, But Not Because I'm A Dinosaur About It. I Have Enough Of A Platform Here. People In My Position Who Do It Tend To Use It In A Promotional Way Or In A Hamstrung Way. I Look At Twitter All The Time As A News Tool Or For Cultural Conversation. I've Used It In My Reporting. It's Very Useful.

Trump's Election Is Part Of An International Trend That's No Less Alarming, In Britain, In France, In Germany, In Austria. Vladimir Putin Wanted To See This Outcome No Less Than He Would Like To See Nationalists And Anti-europeanists Win In France.

There's Nothing Wrong With Creating Jobs. What's Wrong Is To Seed The Illusion That You Will Magically Bring Back The Economy Of 1970, That You Will Reopen Coal Mines.