No matter how many outraged opinion pieces or news articles (but I repeat myself) the New York Times produces, no matter how many smarter-than-thou analysts with non-prescription eyeglasses mope about sadly on CNN, no matter how many Obama fan boys and girls left in the White House press corps shriek at the president whenever in earshot, it just doesn’t matter anymore.
The economy hums. Trump keeps us out of foreign entanglements. Wages increase. America’s traditional meritocracy replaces the Democrats’ grievance-based society. Life happens.
And while the New York Times op-ed was a nice try by the media, they must on some level, deep down, grasp the new reality: no one hears their screams.
This seems sooooo familiar.
Follow us, dear reader(s) back to 1998. Older reader(s) will recall, but younger reader(s) should know, that 1998 was all Clinton-Lewinsky all the time.
Younger reader(s), we want you to understand something about the world 20 years ago. The internet barely existed. Same with satellite TV. There was no satellite radio and no digital music.
So you really couldn't get away from the news even if you wanted to. Everywhere one looked it was Bill and Monica and Ken Starr, on magazines, on TV. Everywhere.
After a while people just tuned it out. In fact people resented the scandal. People were sick of hearing about the scandal and just wanted it to go away.
Which is exactly what has happened with Trump.
What's that line about history as farce?
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