Too Big to Call

Newspapers owned by two of the Trumpster's fellow squillionaires have decided that the choice between business as usual and out-and-out fascism is just too damn difficult. Both the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times have announced that they will not be endorsing either candidate in the presidential election: a decision all the more courageous in that the Trumpster and his head-tribble are unlikely to view non-endorsement any more favourably than they would view endorsement of the enemy within. Staff on the papers have reacted with shock and dismay, as is only natural for a profession whose critical faculties are sufficiently refined never to observe which element comes first in either capitalist journalism or capitalist democracy.