> The United States elected a racist reality-television star who has thrown the presidency into chaos. And now I want to stop reading. Okay, I still finished

> The United States elected a racist reality-television star who has thrown the presidency into chaos. And now I want to stop reading. Okay, I still finished it. But it really turns me off to sell a lie by constantly throwing one-off assertions of it into random unrelated places, where it is supposed to feel out-of-place to notice it and argue against it.