E.J. Dionne Jr.

One of his biggest problems, and I also think is a real problem for the country, is this kind of mega politics means that real problems we face now and in the future, housing, health care, child care, elder care, how to give young people entering a really difficult economy a leg up, particularly people who didn't go to college.

All these big questions.

If we were talking about these, Mona and I could have real arguments about real problems that matter to people.

And the MAGA Trump obsessions drive substance out of politics.

And, boy, that's bad for every party.

Thank you, Yogi Berra.

I think that—Witt Aris, a great Republican pollster, sort of was talking about the Rubio-Vance thing, and he said, but there is a possibility of someone we never heard of.

And I asked him, you know, what candidate are you for?

And he said, I think I'm for somebody we never heard of.

I think it partly depends—well, first of all, Trump has to decide not to run again.

And I still haven't put aside the possibility that Trump, given everything else he's done, would claim some weird right to be in it again.

But I do think there may be, even in the Republican Party, sheer exhaustion—

with this that may lead someone else to say, we need a new track for this party if we're going to survive in the long run.

But it's not obvious to me who that is.

Yeah, maybe.

And I think it's very important that we say that over and over again.

But the Constitution doesn't seem to bother Trump very much on anything else.

So I don't see why it would bother him with very explicit language.

E.J.?

Amen to that, too.