If there's anything more annoying I can't think of it at the moment. The classification "inevitable" threatens us after Hillary Clinton's win in Ohio (etc.etc.). The "inevitable" Hillary will defeat Trump and go on to ....etc.etc.
At about eight-thirty last night, after the news came in that Donald Trump had trounced Marco Rubio in Florida, and that Hillary Clinton had won big victories over Bernie Sanders in Florida and North Carolina, Tony Fratto, who was a White House spokesman for George W. Bush’s Administration, tweeted, “What essentially happened today is @HillaryClinton was elected president. We have 8 months of hyperventilating before its official.”...John Cassidy,NewYorker
See? You can slide back into your life again, assured by the media that you don't have to worry about elections and all that crap. It's a done deal. Your choice has officially been narrowed to Clinton v. Trump -- from tag-along to outrageous.
Why? On Tuesday, Trump won his sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth states. Ted Cruz has won seven. Rubio, who confirmed that he was ending his candidacy, won a single state, Minnesota. Now Kasich has a state in his column, too. In the coming weeks, as the race moves to the East and West Coasts, Trump looks set to rack up more victories. Eventually, the Republican Party will be confronted by a question that David Axelrod, President Obama’s former campaign manager, posed on CNN: “How do you deny someone who has come close to twelve hundred thirty-seven, and won all over the country?”...John Cassidy,NewYorker
There are some sincere Trump fans/apologists out there, for sure, as there are for Hillary Clinton. It would be interesting to know, however, just how many Trump supporters are made up of people who don't give a damn about Trump but just want to goose the system. We have, after all, what we call "free elections," but in truth the process is bent, shriveled, and sometimes shredded by polls, predictions, and press.
Every single qualified voter who doesn't bother to vote assists in the destruction of our country. I was hoping Cassidy, in his usual intelligent update, might address that growing distance between voter and outcome. I don't think the media are a sinister plot against all us good people. Instead, they mirror our proclivities, our weaknesses. They play to the convenient lie that Washington is one thing and we're another.
