Barack Obama: “Let me say it as plainly as I can. If you buy a car from Chrysler or General Motors, you will be able to get your car…”

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

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.

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.

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.