There’s been a lot of breathless bloviating by our media about how unprecedented and foreboding it is to have an ex-president indicated indicted, though I don’t recall such bloviation when an obvious career criminal was elected in the first place. We have been and will be treated to a lot of reaction from the genius’s deluded followers. The diners in the Midwest are no doubt filling up with Trumpers waiting to be interviewed by the New York Times.
I’m not really sure why it is that only Trumpers go to diners in the heartland. There’s a diner in Chester Vermont that my wife and I visit regularly when we’re staying at our second home up there, and I’d be willing to bet that many of the diners are Democrats, but possibly I’m deluding myself. In any event, the Times wouldn’t send its reporters to Vermont to find out what real Americans think, since you can only find real Americans in Trump country.
I wonder if the Times has given any thought to going to other venues to interview people who think that Trump’s indication indictment is a good thing. There do seem to be such people, like the people who cheered like crazy when Stephen Colbert mentioned it in his opening monologue the night of the indication indictment (sorry, it’s such an easy mistake to make!).
Anyway, I’ve given it some thought, and it seems to me that even in the Midwest one might find such people if you looked in the right places. A few venues pop to mind: bookstores and museums for example. Universities and colleges not of the Hillsdale variety. I’m sure there are others. I don’t expect the Times to seek these people. The diner stories, after all, have an underlying subtext. These people, the Times wants us to know, exist, and isn’t it odd that they are out there in such numbers? Whatever could explain it? Surely our readers are more interested in these oddities than they would be in hearing from people who are rational and have not had their brains neutralized by Fox.
I look forward, by the way, to the media amplifying the argument that surely the jury should be well stocked with Fox addicts, because, after all, he deserves a jury of his peers.
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