Dispatch from the Front Lines: Peace, order and really bad governmenting
Honestly not doing that great on the peace and order front, either, but hey.
Hey, folks. Happy Sunday. Lots going on out there, so let’s get right into our dispatch. Hope you enjoy it.
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And now, on with the dispatch.
Your Line editors are admittedly struggling to "load balance" their news consumption these days. The sheer absolute mass of news happening in the United States is basically forming its own blackhole from which our attention, once captured, could never escape. But we also have our own country to keep an eye on, and we also, frankly, learned a lesson from Trump 1 — the tsunami of insane stories is never going to stop. So we have to pace ourselves a bit.
We have looked with interest as the personnel who'll make up president-elect Donald Trump's team are appointed. Some of those appointments are fine — one or two of them even sounds quite good. Others are meh, in that it's about what we expected. Others just seem absolutely bonkers. But as Gerson noted on the podcast, the bonkers is the point — Trump and those in his orbit love jamming their thumbs into the incredulously-blinking eyes of the liberal elites. We have four more years of this to look forward to, so yay, we guess.
We talked about this a bit more on the podcast and we'll leave our remarks there for others to enjoy or reject at their own discretion. For now, the point we really wanted to zoom in on was a possible Canadian angle. One that we think we really ought to be paying a lot of attention to — a lot of attention!