Our columnist DoyleMcManus tried to unplug from the Trump presidency and the 2020 race—here's what he learned:
For seven days, I resolved to stay away from Twitter and Facebook, watch no television, and see if the world felt any calmer.
But Trump isn’t the only offender. Your friends’ Facebook and Instagram postings are rarely urgent. Checking in once a week or so — slowing down to the pace of snail mail, in effect — works fine. As President Obama’s former strategist David Axelrod said recently, this race is a marathon — but we journalists are focused on who’s ahead every hundred yards. You can safely ignore most of those split times; the race has barely started.
One reason for Europeans’ tepid interest in our melodrama is that they have big troubles of their own. The winners were parties that once would have been considered fringe organizations: Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party in Britain, the Greens in Germany, Matteo Salvini’s far-right Lega in Italy.
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