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This week the Fox News Sunday panel takes on the weighty task of pondering whether a Donald Trump presidential candidacy would have a salutary effect on the health of the polity.
It's a question I've never really considered, but pondering it now, I find the answer unsettling: It wouldn't be all that different.
The cover story marvels at the "Wild Bunch" of egotistical celebrities (including Warren Beatty and Donald Trump) who are pondering third-party runs for the presidency.
--Confused and Pondering
Embracing this theme, Dionne instructed President Clinton to "stop all this public pondering" over his "legacy" and actually harness our current good fortune to some glowing idea.