he was a conservative republican, of course, he once said god is a republican, santa claus is a democrat but in 2016, he announced that he would not be voting, he would be voting for hillary clinton, not donald trump, having said of hillary clinton, she is wrong about absolutely everything but she is wrong within normal parameters. that was seen as somewhat of a criticism of donald trump, her opponent, whom pj o'rourke regarded as unstable. but throughout his career, his chief target was self—importance, whether it was his own or other people's and indeed that won him support from both sides of the political divide. he was working, it is said, on a book, prior to his death, about the united states viewed from his hometown of toledo in ohio, thatis hometown of toledo in ohio, that is a place he once called one of the junkyards of american capitalism. david,