Since the end of that year, of course, there’s been a presidential campaign event in 30 of 32 months, including in seven of the nine months since last November. There’s no presidential election until 2020, but the campaigning keeps rolling forward anyway, as though having pushed his rock to the top of the hill, Sisyphus Trump is starting over again on the other side.

The longest we’ve gone without a presidential campaign event since Jan. 1, 2015, was 62 days, according to data from the National Journal. Those 62 days cover a period beginning in the end of December 2016, running through all of January and half of February. The most recent presidential campaign event? On Tuesday night in Phoenix, when President Trump’s 2020 bid held its eighth event of the year.

Light green dots predate the 2016 primaries and include events from any major 2016 candidate. Dark green indicates primary and general election events. Blue dots are Trump’s “thank you” tour. Red dots are 2020 campaign events.

The second-longest period since 2014 in which there were no campaign events was 52 days, spanning the length of May of this year and into June. Since Dec. 31, 2014, there have been only four periods during which we’ve gone at least 25 days without a presidential campaign event.

Why will the presidential campaign never end, you ask? Well, Trump enjoys campaign-style rallies but recognizes that paying for them with federal money would be poorly received. So: 2020 campaign rallies funded by his campaign committee. So: A presidential campaign season that never ends.

It wasn’t always like this, friends. Once upon a time, presidential campaigns came and went, and, when they were over, that was it. People could go about their lives.