New York Times, and the Washington Post. It was also a gift to the book business. There was, publishers found, an apparently insatiable hunger for anti-Trump screeds. One after another of these tomes hit the bestseller lists. While there were the inevitable differences among them in style and perspective, virtually all shared a single theme: Trump was not just a president whose politics the authors disliked; he was the worst person ever to hold the office, unique in his bigotry, corruption, ignorance, stupidity, egomania – indeed, in the estimation of many, comparable to Hitler. In general, the author paid very little if any attention to Trump’s actual political ideas, programs, or accomplishments; instead, their focus was on his personality and personal views, real or imagined – and, by extension, on the supposed attitudes of Trump’s supporters, whose very enthusiasm for him was treated as a character flaw and, indeed, an existential threat to American democracy, tole
Art Burroughe
‘Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities’ wrote Voltaire.
At Politics in the Pub (Tuesday, 12 January, 2021), Max Igan rampaged across the spectrum of human experience like an inchoate scattergun. He invited us into a tortured, crazed, binary world, reminiscent of Christian apocalypticism, ruled by a ‘sub-species so evil you can’t imagine,’ indulging an insatiable appetite for adrenochrome, ‘brain-juice’ harvested from children. ‘Did reality change, or did they just replace our brains?’ Igan mused, before warning that ‘if “they”
can do it, “they” already done it’. Igan then speculated that the “they” may live somewhere beyond the poles.
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