The constant churn of news, the unending assaults on our sense of decency and expectations for government officials, the carousel of White House advisers (“according to Kathryn Dunn-Tenpas, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who has tracked White House turnover rates over three decades, the Trump administration’s 34% turnover rate — 21 of the 61 senior officials she has tracked have resigned, been fired or reassigned — is much higher than that of any other administration in the last 40 years”), the barrage of presidential tweets, the nonstop Trump rationalization and water-carrying from Senate and House Republicans, the twists and turns of the Russia investigation, a series of high-drama special elections, the near-death experience of Obamacare, the ups and downs of the noxious tax bill designed to enrich President Trump and his ilk, the roiling of international relations, the president’s disgusting embrace of autocrats and the endless lies left many Americans drained.
Jennifer Rubin: Guidelines for news-watching while staying sane in 2018
