I Feel Like An Octogenarian At A Rave

Ken AshfordElection 2016Leave a Comment

The thing about this election is that nothing stays.  It seems like there are two or three breaking stories every day.  And every story, had it popped up two or three decades ago, would be occupying the national conscience for a month or so.  Now, it is like the entire country has the attention span of a moth.

And even things that should’t be election news becomes election news.  Anthony Weiner does some bad sexting again.  Which only affects him and his wife.  Except his wife is Huma Abedin, a top Clinton aide.  And that affects the economy how?  That affects national security how? (I know, I know. Trump made that leap, but that doesn’t mean the entire media establishment needs to)

I guess the good news is that when bad news comes out against Clinton — like the drip drip drip of her emails — I can relax in the knowledge that it is going to be less than 24 hours before Trump says or does something stupid and steps on his own attack.

But the dynamics are just plain weird.  WEIRD.