Few would ar­gue with the premise that, in the five months since June, pres­id­en­tial polit­ics have be­haved in ex­traordin­ary ways. The “Feel The Bern” surge of Bernie Sanders on the left and the rise of Don­ald Trump and, more re­cently, Ben Car­son on the right—none of these were de­vel­op­ments that any­one pre­dicted a year or two ago. But as bizarre as the past five months have been, my guess is that the next five months, from now un­til mid-April, will see both polit­ic­al parties be­have much more like nor­mal. This isn’t to sug­gest that everything will be, well, totally nor­mal, as in con­ven­tion­al and hew­ing to his­tor­ic­al norms. But they’ll be closer to what we’ve seen in the past than the in­san­ity of the polit­ics in 2015. Un­less the Justice De­part­ment shifts Hil­lary Clin­ton’s email prob­lems as sec­ret­ary of State from the polit­ic­al do­main to the leg­al, her Demo­crat­ic nom­in­a­tion isn’t in any real doubt. We should stop and note the irony that Clin­ton, who oc­cu­pied the far left of her hus­band’s ad­min­is­tra­tion dur­ing the 1990s, is now scram­bling to

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