Bump in the Night

“It’s not optimal to have as president an authoritarian who denounces journalists as enemies of the people, but he has given us a sense of mission and a ‘Trump bump.’ Every time he denounces us we get more subscriptions.”

—Nicholas Kristof, columnist, “Our Addiction to Trump,” The New York Times, May 5, 2018.

• Editorial Comment: The whole freakin’ country has a wicked bad case of Trump Bumps. Is there a cure, I hope?

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