"The Problem for Trump Is He Has Yet to Find His Willie Horton"

"'He spent eight years as vice president and the solid Reaganites were always suspicious of Bush 41 for not being conservative enough. And he endured a lot of lousy press coverage that was a caricature of him.'
"'The turning point was the convention,' Grissom said. 'That was our reintroduction of Bush and our first real opportunity to define him without filters. People saw him through the convention, the convention speech. "No new taxes." "Kinder, gentler."'"

Adam Nagourney at The New York Times writes that "Republicans are looking back at the 1988 race as a beacon of hope in a bleak political landscape."

German Lopez at Vox writes about Donald Trump's embrace of Richard Nixon's "Law & Order" politics.

And Jeff Greenfield at Politico calls the 1996 election "the least suspenseful, least intriguing, least consequential election of my lifetime, your lifetime, anybody’s lifetime."