There are many things to be depressed about these days, although they all boil down to one thing: Donald Trump.
One of the things that depresses me most is that Trump does and says so many outrageous things every hour of every day that we not only can’t keep up with them, we’ve grown numb to it. We have, and the mainstream media have, too. Trump’s strategy of “flooding the zone” works. If any other president said or did the same things he’s guilty of, it would make banner headlines and drive crowds into the streets. But Donald Trump says it, and people just shrug it off.
On July 22, for example, talking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump was asked about National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard’s request that the Justice Department launch a criminal investigation into whoever was