People always want the world explained to them. Slate has The Explainer. The Washington Post has Andrew van Dam’s Department of Data. Randall Monroe made a fortune on his What If? questions. The old column would fit in with those because it dealt with facts. There are no factual answers to the question “What led to Trump” but there have been a million explanations. People stopped reading them years ago.
I love facts. Facts are amazing. No only are they endlessly fascinating, but many kick at my brain, demanding answers as to why they should be true. We have a tremendously popular thread right here on the Dope:
6438 posts. Lots of wonders. Very few answers. You could mine that one thread for years, the Dope feeding you softballs down the middle of the plate. That’s your strength.