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Rod Dreher, who is a leading Conservative commentator, explains why he thinks Donald Trump is a horrible, horrible human being.

Kevin Drum offers another non-flattering view of Mr. Trump. Well, what did you think you were going to find me linking to these days? Drum notes that while Trump vows to get rid of Obamacare, he doesn't seem to have the slightest idea what it is or how it works. Worse, he doesn't seem to know much about his own companies.

And speaking of Obamacare, Jonathan Chait explains that Obamacare is a very successful program which people don't believe is successful because of the smear campaign against it. For what it's worth, I agree. It ain't perfect and it does need a small amount of fixing but more people have health coverage than before and that means fewer people dying because they couldn't afford it.