The Tricia Cotham soap opera doesn’t interest me.

Were Democrats mean to her?

I don’t care.

Did PAC donations play a part?

I don’t care.

Will a once-pro-abortion progressive find peace, love and joy in the Republican caucus?

I don’t care.

Things I do care about: the public-school crisis, the behavioral-health crisis, the gun crisis, the drug and crime crisis, the climate crisis, the gay- and trans-bashing crisis, the abortion-ban crisis, the culture-war crisis and the crisis of democracy.

In my newspaper days, we’d say too many column-inches have been wasted and too many barrels of ink spilled on the Cotham story.

That’s an old reference, but it’s an old story: “Politician puts ambition before principle.”

And the veto math has been clear since the November elections.

Democrats need to stop whining about one party-switcher and start winning more elections.

That I care about.