March 7, 2017
Lee Drutman wrote for Vox's Polyarchy on how to combat exhaustion due to hyper-vigilant attention to the Trump administration:
If we are constantly upset and angered by the news, at some point we may simply just turn it off and decide it’s easier to retreat into our private lives, focus again on our nonpolitical hobbies, and just stop paying attention. And if we stop paying attention, and stop engaging, that means we’ve effectively given up.