Too Much Trump — Editorial

Everyday, as I curate articles from news sources around the country and world for my daily newspaper, “johnmac’s news of the day” (http://paper.li/f-1416296565), and /or my ten-article daily newsletter, “johnmac13’s Newsletter” (http://nuzzel.com/johnmac13/2016/10/11), I look for representative pieces about, anong other topics, politics. In the early stages of the primary campaigns, there were enough opposing candidates — Sanders, Rubio, Clinton, Cruz, Trump, Carson, and Bush — to have a wide range of political articles.

Then Trump began to suck up all the air in the room, both on television and in newsprint, and soon we were down to Trump, Clinton, and Sanders, and, finally, Trump and Clinton — and he still continues to sucuk up all the coverage. Whether it’s his attacks on Clinton, charges about Trump University, his tax returns, the recent “pussy” charges, and on and on, he still much more coverage than Clinton.

Every day, I look at the UK Guardian, USA Today, the Washington Post, New York Times, New York Post, New York Daily News, Atlantic, The New Yorker, National Review, Mother Jones, Reason, The Nation, and even the far right writings of Erick Erickson and Glenn Beck and it’s all Trump, Trump, Trump!

I admit that I personally can’t stand Donald Trump and that I tend to agree with the writings of Richard Cohen, Eugene Robinson, and Gail Collins, who obviously feel the same way but when I look to the conservative columnists who would normally be supporting Republican ticket, such as George Will, David Brooks, Charles Krauthammer, and Kathleen Parker, I find that they share the same distaste (as do the aforementioned Erickson and Beck) so, perhaps unfortunately, my publications have also descended into Trump, Trump, Trump!

Look on the bright side though — in less than a month from now, no one will care what Donald Trump says!