INGERSOLL: Masking Babies. MeToo And BLM. Lindsay Clancy. Now Data Centers. America Can’t Stop Flopping Into Manic Episodes

August 26, 2026 11:13 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,You know, I used to have this thing I’d say in the newsroom …UNITED STATES OF MANIA “He should have nuked the internet.”When Trump was suspended from “Twitter” in 2021, I used to fantasize to my staff: “Imagine Trump said to himself, ‘I can’t be on Twitter? Then no one can,’ and on his way out, he cracked off some nukes over key server farms and fried the internet.”Obviously it’s not that easy, if you consider launching nukes easy (at least a significant portion of the brain worms electorate did think Trump would eventually start launching nukes). Frying the internet is basically impossible. It’s way too globally distribu