Doyle McManus: We fled the country to escape news about Trump. We failed
by Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Jun 10, 2019
3 minutes
I launched an experiment last week: I tried to unplug from the tumult of President Donald Trump's Washington and the Democratic presidential race.
For seven days, I resolved to stay away from Twitter and Facebook, watch no television, and see if the world felt any calmer.
OK, I cheated a little. My wife and I headed for the lakes of northern Italy. We stayed in an old stone house with no TV in a hilltop village without easy internet access. We couldn't stay glued to Twitter
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