Trump can horrify us, annoy us, embarrass us — but he cannot shock us

The only thing Trump can do to shock us is to behave like a grownup for a sustained period of time, without the aid of sedatives.

After a rumor spread that there might be a tape of Trump saying the N-word, people were more surprised by the absence of the tape than by the rumor itself. It's shocking when good people do bad things, not when bad people do bad things.