Monday, July 21, 2025

A few months ago, I wrote why I am (mostly) going to avoid talking about Donald Trump on this blog.  

Freddie Deboer recently made the same point on his blog.  He is essentially saying the same thing I said, but much more eloquently, so I'll quote him:
...when it comes to Donald Trump, there is nothing I can say that will matter, not even a little bit.
That’s not some empty gesture of fatalism. It’s a recognition of reality. There’s already an immense and suffocating media ecosystem built entirely around Donald Trump, pro and con, left and right, earnest and cynical. The man is the gravitational center of modern American political discourse. He is the sun around which all else orbits. He has been analyzed, dissected, profiled, parodied, investigated, indicted, psychoanalyzed, lionized, and demonized to a degree that exceeds comprehension. Every possible critique of him has already been made, often in triplicate. His corruption, his cruelty, his incompetence, his shamelessness - all of it has been written a thousand times, often by people far more credentialed and connected in the world of partisan politics than I am. He and his reign are topics so saturated with analysis that there’s scarcely any rhetorical oxygen left to consume.

1 comment:

Joel Swagman said...

...although, just for the record, it is ridiculous all the stuff that Trump is getting away with right under our noses. But what good does it do to blog about it when it's already all over the news?