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Jeb Bush, the man who once pledged famously/infamously that he would run for president "joyfully," had this to say on the campaign trail in South Carolina: "If this election is about how we’re going to fight to get nothing done, then I don’t want anything, I don’t want any part of it. I don’t want to be elected president to sit around and see gridlock just become so dominant that people literally are in decline in their lives. That is not my motivation. I’ve got a lot of really cool things I could do other than sit around, being miserable,...

This weekend illustrates why Trump (or somebody like him) could be president. The second rule of pres­id­en­tial polit­ics is nev­er tell voters you’ve got something bet­ter to do. Jeb Bush on Sat­urday: “I’ve got a lot of really cool things I could do oth­er than sit around, be­ing miser­able, listen­ing to people de­mon­ize me and me feel­ing com­pelled to de­mon­ize them.” The third rule of pres­id­en­tial polit­ics is nev­er tell voters to vote for some­body else. Jeb Bush: “That is a joke. Elect Trump if you want that.” The fourth rule of pres­id­en­tial polit­ics is polit­ics today sucks. Deal with...