Barack Obama: “You are the ones who make the United States Armed Forces the finest fighting force in the history of the world.”

The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president.

If I had a blame pie for why politics is so polarised and why we're seeing a rise of populism in many places, it's because of that information that is going into our brains every day.

Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.

People need to “rediscover what’s the story we tell about how we’re going to live together, and see each other, and recognise each other, and disagree, and yet, still care for each other”.