A reason to vote for Joe Biden, according to former President Barack Obama, is that “it just won’t be so exhausting.”
The exhaustion is real, but don’t buy into the idea that it’s President Trump who exhausted you.
No, it’s not him or his tweets. It’s the news media’s obsessive, round-the-clock, ever-panicked coverage that has exhausted you.
They’ve jumped from one manufactured crisis to the next, amplifying every single thing that he does as if any of it should make a difference in our lives.
Did you see that Trump dumped a box of food into a koi fish pond?! Yes, if you don’t recall, that was an actual media controversy of the Trump presidency.
The New York Times this week had each of its 15 regular columnists write a piece about what America has “lost” under Trump. “It’s exhausting to be this outraged all the time,” moaned Maureen Dowd.
Her colleague Michelle Goldberg similarly wrote that “when politics are so alarming that the rest of the world seems to recede, it creates cultural claustrophobia.”
This would be like banging two pans together and at the same time crying out, “Why won’t the noise stop?!”
If you consume political news for a living, it’s surely going to exhaust you that the media do little more than hyperventilate over every move the president makes, insisting that each one deserves your utmost concern.
But it’s not true. If you’re tired, you know who to blame. And electing Biden isn’t the way to fix it.
