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The Right Is Apoplectic Over This Piece About A Post-Trump "Reckoning"Which Means It's Good.


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In its nasty defensiveness, it is closer to a cornered rat. It still has plenty of ugly fight left. But we are at the beginning of the endgame.....


By Dartagnan at the Daily Kos

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/20/1...-It-s-Good

"SNIP...........

James Wolcott is never going to be America’s favorite columnist. I suspect that’s just fine with James Wolcott.

As a contributor to the New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire and numerous other publications over the last four decades, Wolcott is best known for his critiques of modern culture and in particular, media culture. His breezy, often acerbic style, (think of a jaded aristocrat channeling Matt Taibbi), is notably averse to pulling punches.

Writing for Vanity Fair (his most visible platform) since 1983, Wolcott has managed to irk both the left and right, proving himself an equal opportunity provocateur (which I say with a certain warmth as his past blog notes have links to Daily Kos dating back to the George W. Bush Administration). All in all, he has cemented a solid reputation as an unusually perceptive observer of our times.

But his most recent essay appears to have twisted the girdles of the right more so than others, because in it he contemplates what this country will need to do once Donald Trump has been, how you say, “put out to pasture” by whatever means that may occur.

Indeed, the piece, appearing in this month’s Vanity Fair, is apparently hitting so close to the bone that it’s incurred the wrath of some conservative Women’s Organization (translated as a group of women who live to hate on other women) calling itself the “Independent Women's Forum," some Matt-Drudge wannabe site called the “Rightly Report," FreeRepublic (yep, hold your nose!) and Newsbusters, to name a few.

Oh, yeah. They’re pissed. Maybe it was this that got them all hot and bothered:

In the sorriest days of the Watergate scandal, the iconoclastic journalist and 60 Minutes commentator Nicholas von Hoffman compared the Nixon presidency to “a dead mouse on the American family kitchen floor. The question is: who is going to pick it up by the tail and drop it in the trash?” It would be premature to write off the Trump presidency as a deceased rodent lying on the linoleum.

In its nasty defensiveness, it is closer to a cornered rat. It still has plenty of ugly fight left. But we are at the beginning of the endgame and it is not premature to start imagining how to pick through the damage the Trump presidency will leave behind and future-proof the republic so that It Can’t Happen Here; never happens again
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