All politics isnt local its been sucked into the Trump vortex

The old saying that all politics is local has never been more passé, more irrelevant, than right now.
All politics — be it local, national, even international — has instead been sucked into an all-powerful, blinding vortex.

All politics now is Trump.

Ever since he came down that escalator, Donald Trump has consumed all the political oxygen — even 3,000 miles distant, here in Washington state.

Example: I was poking around in the state public-disclosure database and realized it now looks likely there won’t be a single statewide initiative measure on the ballot here this fall.

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Perennial initiative pusher Tim Eyman has a property-tax-cutting measure, but it appears stalled with very little money. Another measure, Initiative 1552, the bathroom bill to mandate separate restrooms by gender, had only raised $87,000 by the end of April. Both campaigns have until July to turn in more than 300,000 signatures. But at this late date it would likely take a sudden infusion of major cash, upward of half a million dollars or more, for that to happen.

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On the other side, former GOP state party Chairman Chris Vance said, “Republicans here are focused desperately on trying to hold onto the state Senate.” Which he predicted, due to fallout from Trump, they would not do.
“He’s the issue, he’s the whole thing in politics right now,” Vance said. “You can’t get anybody to talk about anything else, or to organize around something else.”

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/all-politics-isnt-local-its-been-sucked-into-the-trump-vortex/