(RNS) On New Year’s Eve, I made a resolution to stop obsessing over Donald Trump once Joe Biden was inaugurated as president on Jan. 20. I promised not to tweet anything about the outgoing president until at least after Easter.
Trump has been a national obsession since he began running for president in 2015. He consumes all the oxygen in the room. Every conversation eventually turns to him. There are few if any Trump-free zones in the country, even in church on Sunday.
Polite society used to avoid talking about sex, politics and religion, but those days are over, since talking about Trump involves all those topics.