Obama Drops the Mic at the Correspondents Dinner

Obama Drops the Mic at the Correspondents Dinner

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One thing Obama could do when he is out of office is go on tour -- he's hilarious: "There's one area where Donald's experience could be invaluable, and that's closing Guantanamo. Because Trump knows a thing or two about running waterfront properties into the ground." The Shade is fierce with this one.
Sunday Open Thread [5.1.16]

Sunday Open Thread [5.1.16]

Matt Yglesias thinks Donald Trump could do to the national Republican Party what Pete Wilson did to the California Republican Party:
Donald Trump might doom the Republican party. As he inches closer to the nomination, national polling suggests he is in a very weak position in the general election. A loss in November could leave the party in shambles, more divided than ever. That's a big deal, but some right-of-center Trump skeptics are trying to talk themselves into the idea that he's only a temporary setback to the party. RealClearPolitics' Sean Trende notes correctly that there is a long history of pundits over-reading single landslide elections and writing parties out of history, only to see them bounce back two or four — or even six — years later. Even a really bad 2016 election could be the just the same for the GOP. That may be right. But there's a chance that it could be wrong. Just ask Pete Wilson, the former governor of California who managed to turn a contested state into a Democratic stronghold by over-indulging a shrinking white majority's fear of uncontrolled immigration and ending up defining his party as permanently unacceptable to the state's new diverse majority. What happened in California should serve as a warning to future of the Republican party.