4528 - Presidential Election 2024: Why Do People Vote For Trump?
A couple of days ago, an interesting email dropped into my inbox. It was a piece from Tablet entitled, Hunter S. Thompson Was a Weird Visionary Before Drugs and Politics Ate His Brain. The author, Jeff Weiss, ably plumbs the spirit in the late Dr. Thompson's monumental valediction to the 1972 presidential election, which remains the finest passage in the history of modern American political journalism: This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay ba...