Time to Elect the Worst Idea

By GAIL COLLINS
NYT

Our topic today is picking the worst new trend of the political season.

Not including putting the dog on the car roof.

I was thinking more along the lines of candidates who twitter. Or robo-calls from Donald Trump. Or candidates who build home additions with car elevators.

Or “super PACs” funded by billionaires who appear so demented you cannot figure out how in the world they got to be so rich. Actually, the super PACs are the worst trend, hands down.

But since I still have some space here, let me throw in a plug for the terribleness of the idea of Americans Elect.

(More here.)