INGERSOLL: Here’s What’s Dominating Elite Discourse Today. Are You Exhausted Yet?

July 24, 2026 10:21 AM ET Below is State of the Day, a morning newsletter by Daily Caller Editor-at-Large Geoff Ingersoll. Sign up here.__________Greetings, Dear Reader,Sophie “doubles down.” Therapists. Ladyboys.TAKE A PEAK INTO THE ELITE ABYSSEvery now and then, instead of reading a bunch of newsletters and copy, then formulating a coherent and original idea for the day, I’ll just pop on X’s trending list and see what I think is the most insane news item. Turns out that today, it’s just X’s trending list. Americans care about almost none of this, fyi. They might find it amusing/enraging and comment about it on various social media if they see it in their feeds, but it’s not preeminent in their minds.Polling still shows the economy, affordability, health care, and immigration are still th