As Road Runner taunts Wile E., the coyote gives us a knowing wriggle of his eyebrows before switching on the skates’ ignition, confident that this time he’d catch the damn bird.

Rules included Wile E. Coyote nearly always being thwarted by gravity, Road Runner having an incredibly limited vocabulary and the action being never allowed to leave the Arizona desert.

The cartoonish nature of this election campaign is epitomized by Trump as The Road Runner, and Democrats as the forever-frustrated Wile E. Coyote. Larry Shores, Fishers ...