Stop Exaggerating
During the 9/11 attacks, one of the hijacked planes, Flight 93, failed to achieve its mission. Why? Because the passengers, having gotten wind of what had been done with the other planes, charged into the cockpit and brought down the plane. While Trump and Clinton were still campaigning last year, one blogger wrote wrote that Clinton would take the country “off a cliff”. Therefore, he urged : “2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die.” Now, of course, the boot is on the other foot. Anti-Trump campaigns are based on the same fear of Trump destroying “everything”. Everything? , snorts Alan Jacobs. He rightly calls out the rampant exaggeration on both sides: “This absolutizing of fright reminds me of the expanding scope of disasters in superhero comics and movies: People will die! — no wait, a whole city will be destroyed! — A city? Small stuff. The planet will be vaporized! — A mere planet? The universe will disappear in...