Wednesday, September 9, 2020

The dirty secret of the Bob Woodward book is...

 ...roughly 40 percent of the country does not care how terrible a president Donald Trump is. They buy what he is selling, for whatever reason, and even taped conversations in which he admits he was lying to the country aren't going to make a difference.

That, as much as anything, is why I feel despair about the country. 

1 comment:

Andrew said...

This was so utterly clear long before the election.

But then we also have Biden as the Dem. nominee, so democracy as practiced in the US is great.

Stubborn desperation

Oh man, this describes my post-2008 journalism career: If I have stubbornly proceeded in the face of discouragement, that is not from confid...