The Run-Up

One Week In America

It began on an autumn Friday morning in Washington D.C.

It’s been one week since, and despite dozens of tweets from the Commander in Chief, Republicans are not polling well. Post-2016 polls are complex for traumatized but numbers-driven Democrats. We can’t acknowledge them right now. They need to earn our trust back. Good polling doesn’t serve the front-runner any good, anyway. It only motivates the competition and makes the base complacent. I want my polls to say, “it’s so fucking close, you better act now.” It’s called benevolent deception.

October 26, 2018

With ironic quotation the President denies that the bombs mailed to former President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former CIA Director John Brennan, former Attorney General Eric Holder, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, former Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Cory Booker, Senator Kamala Harris, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, George Soros, Robert DeNiro, and Tom Steyer are, in fact, bombs. They are revealed to be pipe bombs. The attempted…