In America 2025, seemingly everything has to be viewed through a partisan political lens. Even my personal vacations.

I wrote Aug. 29 about having enjoyed myself in Portland and Seattle . Coincidentally, Donald Trump Jr. had just mused during a TV interview that the military should be sent “to Portland, Seattle, the other craphole cities of the country.”

On our newspapers’ Facebook pages, readers, or at least people who like to comment on Facebook after reading headlines, weighed in.

“The cities are nice,” one allowed, “but the ideology sucks.”

When booking a vacation, “ideology” should definitely be top of mind.

“Well I guess if you like streets full of junkies and homeless people it might be a good place,” another groused.

Houston has a lot of those too, but not enough to make i

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