Such a strange non-election
While I vote straight-ticket Democratic every election, and always work myself into a lather with whatever phony the GOP coughs up, well, it's good for the country to have a proper fight every four years. I'm on one side of the fight, but even more I'm on the side of the match.
Obama and Romney had at each other, partly on policy, partly on character and theatrics. And the country was better for it.
Here we've got Hillary doing the hard, nitty gritty of electioneering -- raising money, registering voters, etc.
And you've got Trump, who on one level is running against her -- holding rallies, lying about Mexicans, issuing death threats, etc. -- but at another level ain't even in the ring. He's standing outside the ropes yelling at the judges, and Hillary is winning round after round by default.
They're not arguing about taxes, or trade, or foreign policy, or the right way to fix health care. There's not even an argument. There is a professional woman in this column, and there is a lunatic crapping himself in that column, and one of them will get the nuclear codes in a couple of weeks.
It's a strange thing. I kind of miss the normalcy of a regular election, with its Democratic confusion and Republican mendacity.
And I can't wait to never, ever have to think about Donald Trump again.
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