![]() You can mock the disabled, insult war veterans, get caught on tape bragging about assaulting women: All this, and your country will anoint you leader. You can gain notoriety via a reality show where you feel self-empowered for firing people. You can be a philandering businessman, a failure. Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President? This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves finally just lay back and say it-that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. Are there parallels in Thompson’s coverage of the 1972 campaign to what we’re experiencing in the era of Donald Trump? Specifically, was the Nixon campaign, and was Nixon as a candidate, as depraved (to use a Thompson word) and absurd as what we’re seeing today? ![]() ![]() Thompson’s Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 this year for two main reasons. ![]()
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