Naturally, from here, our conversation turned to Donald Trump. Eldin and Ajla went through the expected liberal talking points and platitudes. I agreed, of course, with all of them, the thrust of which was that Trump was a bigot and a con man, but it left a bad taste in my mouth nonetheless, knowing that if MSNBC were unmuted in the den, I’d be hearing more or less the same talking points and platitudes, delivered in nearly the same rote fashion. It was aesthetically displeasing, like a canned phrase or a stale image.
