| | | I don’t really know. Hitchens could be uncouth sometimes, which was part of his appeal to me. He was direct, and didn’t mind squashing people when necessary. When he supported the Iraq War, left groaned simultaneously, then acted like he didn’t exist. They were far more tolerant of Tom Friedman's support followed by a long, slow trip back to the leftward norm.
At any rate I think he would have found plenty to like about Trump. He was never shallow, and I think understood the problems we face are existential and I am absolutely certain he was have rolled his eyes and lit another smoke at the mention of Joe Biden as president. He would have thought the country lost its collective mind.
One of the things the left never got about Trump is that he understood how to get things done. And the notion of speaking to the country at the same level as you do politicians, well, it just never has made sense. Trump knew that, Obama thrived on big talk (although he never wrote one of his own speeches, sort of the height of superficiality found in politicians, but not in Trump).
I think Hitch would have been amused by the freshness of Trump's independence from tradition. After all, he wasn’t mired in it unnecessarily. |
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