As Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House a second time, it appears that the Americans who oppose him are faced with a terrible dilemma. Keep invested in political news but let the doomscrolling on media websites slowly erode your mental health and peace of mind. Or alternatively, you can mentally withdraw from news and current events, but you render yourself totally oblivious to the threats against our democracy coming around the corner.
I reject this dilemma. I believe that our sanity, both mental and political, requires us to establish what the truth is. We cannot retain sanity if our legacy media, our civil society, and our government are constantly gaslighting us in trying to get us believe what is definitely not so.
For this reason, I have started this newsletter of current events and analysis, which I call Sanity Check.