 party system. So much of the news these days makes your head spin, which presents great challenges to those of us trying to get behind it. The reinvention of the Post shooting Donald Trump is some sort of empath. The New York Post informed me this morning that he regularly checks in with his 17-year-old granddaughter to see how her golf game is going, and some NBC News pundits spoke the other day of an unprecedentedly pensive look on his face. It's all hard to process.