How Trump, Vance, And Populism Beat Everything Else To A Pulp

Have you ever heard of "deaths of despair," a concept ironically coined by two people who work at Princeton?

This is a bigger topic and I may not get it all right, but I’ll do my best to try.

If you’re unfamiliar with the terms “deaths of despair,” which local news anchors sometimes mistakenly refer to as “depths of despair,” it basically refers to a trend in the last 20 years whereby we’re seeing more deaths around:

• Suicide

• Overdose

• Long-term alcohol use

The big n…