time for some Real Talk about getting this guy either an editor or (as the case may be) a new editor.

yes. if you read just a few more comments, you’ll see that i call it completely unrealistic. good job noticing why!

god damn, burnenko’s a bad writer

yeah, any minute now runaway inflation will start, like you guys have been promising all these years. aaaaaany minute now. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaany minute.

Totally unrealistic, sure. Hamilton Nolan is not a realistic person who cares about how change actually happens — point happily granted.

If the deficit was a meaningful measuring stick here, maybe you’d have a point. But it isn’t, so you don’t!

well, the coal thing and also swaths of southern and eastern ohio being one of the most racist regions in the country, which makes it particularly fertile ground for trump to pick off some traditionally democratic voters. also that.