Alexei Navalny dies in a Russian prison. Donald Trump takes a break from campaigning and court dates to sell golden basketball shoes. Joe Biden mistakes the normal-sized, female Angela Merkel for the hulking, male (and dead) Helmut Kohl and thinks Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is the president of Mexico.
Every day, the American public is pummeled with stunning, often unprecedented news stories. Like Lucille Ball trying to sort conveyor-belt chocolates, the rapid appearance of these events overwhelms us all. Regular Americans are busy raising their kids, holding down jobs, and solving murders from their home computers — hardly anyone has the time to sit down to thoughtfully reflect on what is about to happen to our country over the next nine months.
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