Ignore Mueller. Ignore Michael Cohen. Ignore Stormy Daniels. Ignore the National Inquirer. Ignore Flynn. Ignore Roger Stone. Ignore Manafort. Ignore Rudy. Ignore the Trump Tower meeting. Ignore Christopher Steele. Ignore Comey. Ignore the NBC interview. Ignore the tax returns. Ignore the foreign guests at the Trump hotels.
Ignore Mattis. Ignore Kelly. Ignore Spicer. Ignore McMaster. Ignore DeVos. Ignore Zinke. Ignore Pruitt. Ignore Carson. Ignore Tillerson. Ignore Mnuchin. Ignore Ross.
Ignore the tweets. Ignore Charlottesville. Ignore the shutdown. Ignore the wall. Ignore the family separations. Ignore the regulatory foxes in the henhouse. Ignore the lies and the narcissism. Ignore “executive time.” Ignore the scattershot decisionmaking process. Ignore Puerto Rico. Ignore the determination to replace Obamacare with something–anything–that would be worse. Ignore the regressive tax cut. Ignore all the times he mindlessly threw red meat to his base and divided the country. Ignore the shots at the judicial system and the Fed. Ignore the complaints about the “deep state.”
Ignore Putin. Ignore the stupid trade wars. Ignore the empty optimism about North Korea. Ignore MBS. Ignore the repeated and gratuitous insults to our allies. Ignore the complaints about NATO. Ignore the unnecessary drama over NAFTA. Ignore the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and the Iran deal. Ignore Afghanistan and Syria. Ignore the Turks and the Kurds. Ignore his open enthusiasm for dictators. Ignore the impending arms race. Ignore his contempt for the rule of law and democratic principles, both at home and abroad.
The 2020 election can be boiled down to this: Trump gave us peace and prosperity, and the Democrats will give us socialism and Venezuela. Nothing else matters.
To which I would reply: that sure is a whole lot of ignorance.