David Frum: “This is a big defeat, and it's not just the mechanics of voter turnout, although those were bad.”

People around the president may try to deny it, but there is a named person saying this is what he said.

You want to be president and that means you have to be president of this whole country.

There has been a real shift in power dynamics between the president and the Republican parties, the Republicans' disadvantage.

The United States finds itself in the dangerous situation of having a president in power but without authority.