Midterm morning after: dispatch from wonderland

In the face of post-truth fatigue and an untimely deadline, here’s a pre-news piece filed from a rational parallel universe.

In the United States congressional midterm elections on Nov. 6, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and, this year, 35 of 100 Senate seats, and 39 state governorships were contested. Photograph courtesy of KOMUnews

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

November 7, 2018

While I’ve spent a lot of time since the dawn of the Trump era bewailing the relentless hourly onslaught of post-truthian rubbish, I am, on this one occasion and for purely logistical reasons, going to embrace the Trumpian tactic of opportunistic fictionalization. I file this column on Monday. Th...

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