donald trump s rhetoric on the campaign trail and in the white house now is born of what roger ailes and bill o reilly built from the mid 1990s on. they built a wing of the conservative movement that was open to a donald trump and i would say this is to margaret and alisyn s point. they built a wing of the party that the argument against political correctness, which is at the core right of o reilly s appeal and remains at the core of fox s appeal to many people. the liberals tell you this. they made it okay. that bro culture that donald trump can go and grow up. any other candidate who withstands with the access hollywood tape and women are pigs. is out of the race. and yet, donald trump, i don t want to say he prospered from that, but it did not hurt him
government this week? i ll explain. first, here s my take. if you are trying to understand the recent protests against the putin regime in russia, one of the best guides is an outspoken columnist that s been writing essays in the nation s leading newspapers over the past month. political competition is the heart beat of democracy. this author writes noting the absence of such competition in contemporary russia. he describes the frustrations of the russian middle class, demanding political rights. today the quality of our state does not match civil society s readiness to participate in it. on corruption, perhaps the issue that most riles the public, the problem is scathing. it s from the lack of transparency and accountability of government, he says. now, what makes this all deeply strange is that the author of these essays is vladimir putin, the architect, builder, and chief enforcer of the system that he is critiquing. putin seems to understand russia s problems better tha