'We really ought to stop allowing Trump’s toxicity to dominate and inflame the national conversation — and stop inadvertently spreading it,' writes Tom Krattenmaker for usatodayopinion.
Tom KrattenmakerHere in Connecticut, one of our U.S. Senators has stopped following Donald Trump on the President’s favorite social media platform. “I’m unfollowing the President of the United States today on Twitter,” Chris Murphy announced, “because his feed is the most hate-filled, racist, and demeaning of the 200+ I follow, and it regularly ruins my day.”
Such as the fact that the sheer volume of gunk oozing out of the White House makes it nearly impossible — and quite unhealthy — to respond to each instance. Not to mention unhelpful. Once a pattern or truth is established, is it really necessary to seize on each example of it? When you already have 1,000 case studies, is there any great value in the 1,001st? Better to reserve the alarm bells for offenses that break new ground and pose the greatest danger.
In the run-up to the 2012 election, I joked with friends that media were so fixated on Obama's re-election chances that if there were news of an impending meteor strike, one certain to wipe out the human race, the headlines would say,"Human extinction dampens Obama election prospects."Ration your bandwidth carefully
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