Promise made, promise broken: Making this blog a TFZ (Trump-Free Zone) (2016)

Yeah.

Ten years ago, Trump was running for the Republican nomination for president. At the time, the media could not stop showing him and talking about him, his Republican opponents could not stop criticizing him, and I wrote about him far too frequently. Which is why, in March 2016, I promised to make this blog a Trump-Free Zone. Eventually.

In the time since, Trump has been elected president twice, those Republican opponents are now in his cabinet or are his most sycophantic supporters, and I am still writing about Trump, once in awhile and hopefully even less in the future. Just like when we were in the middle of the pandemic, I wrote frequently about Covid, because there are some disasters you should not turn your back on.

So it goes.

I intend and promise to make this blog a TFZ (Trump-Free Zone). Very soon. Maybe. For a while. I run away from my favorite news channels, sometimes for hours, while he is showcased. So I understand not to contribute to the overexposure.

But to torture the famous words of St. Augustine:

Lord make this blog a Trump-Free Zone. But not yet.

Thanks for your patience.

March 10, 2016