Let the bad times roll

The 2020 presidential election is in high gear; some 16 months before voters cast their ballots, the campaign already promises to be intense and bitter to a degree perhaps unprecedented.

A measure of this is that President Trump’s supporters began lining up to get into his campaign launch rally in Tampa, Fla., 40 hours before it was scheduled to begin. They camped out on the streets during a monsoon! There were more than 100,000 applications for seats in an auditorium with a maximum capacity of 20,000. People drove from as far away as Boston to be there. Intense!