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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