Bill Thompson: How did Trump lose? Not theft, fatigue

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President Trump pleads his case during a Dec. 5 rally in Georgia. (Kyodo via AP Images)

I thought Donald Trump would win in 2016. I thought he would win again in 2020, and by golly he got enough votes to have won any presidential election in American history – except this one. The Democratic Party placed its hopes for denying Trump a second term on the shoulders of a tired old […]

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Bill Thompson
Thompson is a native of East St. Louis, Ill., where he developed a lifelong love of the St. Louis Cardinals (all-time favorite player, Stan Musial; runner-up, Lou Brock). He’s been editor of daily newspapers in Illinois, New Jersey and Maine, where he spent four teeth-chattering winters in-between two of his three stints with the Fort Worth Business Press. But Thompson’s favorite job over the years has been riling up readers with opinion columns and editorials on topics ranging from politics to sports to curious shenanigans at City Hall. A newspaper in Pennsylvania once marketed him as “the man you love to hate.” He wrote columns for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram from 1987 to 2001, when he left in the first wave of buyouts and layoffs perpetrated by a now-defunct company called Knight Ridder. He still misses that job. He doesn’t miss Knight Ridder.