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Welcome, my friends, to the tantrum that never ends. At least, it often feels that way.
The frothing, screeching anti-Trump meltdown on the American Left has been tedious and tiresome to most of us since Election Night 2016. Miracle of miracles, it appears that some of the fit-pitchers might want to bring the drama level down a bit.
This year, anti-Trump voters are grappling with another powerful sentiment: exhaustion.
“Some folks are burned out on outrage,” said Rebecca Lee Funk, the Washington-based founder of the Outrage, a progressive activism group and a purveyor of resistance-era apparel. “People are tired. I think last election we were desperate to get Trump out of office, and folks were willing to rally around that singular call to action. And this election feels different.”
The poor dears.
True story: the FedEx/Kinko’s that my brother-in-law went to last Saturday had only one printer, and it was broken. That must be how the “Outrage” people who are out of outrage feel these days. Here’s a variation of an often-used refrain that applies in so many situations, especially the entire leftist approach to Trump: When everything is an outrage, nothing is an outrage.
Substitute “existential crisis” for “outrage,” and you have my go-to response since 2016 to lefties who start emotionally falling all about the place when talking about Donald Trump.
At the end of last November, I decided to begin a weekly column titled “Trump Derangement Syndrome Meltdown of the Week.” There is never a shortage of material, but I have noticed a moribund, boilerplate quality to a lot of them, as if a not-quite-up-to-snuff AI housed in the bowels of the Democratic National Committee was spitting out templates for media good doggies…
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