Matt Taibbi's New Book: 'Insane Clown President'

[babylonsister]

Matt Taibbi's New Book: 'Insane Clown President'

Watch Taibbi discuss his new campaign trail diary on 'Democracy Now!'
Watch Matt Taibbi on 'Democracy Now!' discussing his new book, 'Insane Clown President.'
By Matt Taibbi
5 hours ago


Matt Taibbi on President Trump and How America Got It So Wrong

Journalists and politicians blew off the warning signs of a Trump presidency – now, we all must pay the price

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I would never compare myself to Thompson – that's a losing undertaking for any political writer – but unlike previous campaigns I've covered for the magazine, 2016 had a lot in common with 1972. Richard Nixon was the defining monster of Thompson's era. We've now found ours in Donald Trump.

Trump is the perfect modern American. He's a human consumption machine with no attention span, no self-control, no beliefs and no hobbies outside of sex, spending, eating and talking about himself. Nixon at least played the piano and read classics. He was an intellectual with a pig's heart. Trump is just the pig part.

The distance between the two men represents how far we've fallen as a nation in the last 40 or 50 years. Once we were merely rotten and evil on the inside. Now we even lack the depth needed to be two-faced, and our dark underbelly is also our shameless, dumb exterior.

During most of the last two years I thought the Trump campaign would just be an isolated episode of mass insanity on which we would someday be able to look back and laugh. It turned out to be something a lot darker and crazier than that. Insane Clown President is the story of how we got here, to the beginning of our next long national nightmare.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/matt-taibbis-new-book-insane-clown-president-w461390

[octoberlib]

1. I'm gonna have to get this book.

[yallerdawg]

2. Another reminder that a great number of our fellow Americans...

just shoved something up our collective nether region.

I cut my lifelong political eye teeth on Nixon. I'll never forget.

And our long national nightmare just begins at noon Friday.

[crazycatlady]

3. I'll get this from the library

I'm a fan of Matt Taibbi's other books.

[BeyondGeography]

4. Oh yes

"The perfect modern American."

[still_one]

5. Wonder if he is still an apologist for Putin?

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/something-about-this-russia-story-stinks-w458439

and he basis his "proof" on the WMD's in Iraq.

[Parker DeWitt]

13. Just because you don't buy the

"Putin did it" propaganda doesn't make you a "Putin apologist." It makes you an apologist for the truth. The Putin story is full of holes.

[still_one]

14. This is an opinion board. I expressed an OPINION. I didn't PERSONALLY accuse ANYONE

on DU of anything. You on the other hand accused ME of being "an apologist for the truth"

Perhaps you need to read the TOS

[Achilleaze]

15. Most Republican comrades are sorely lacking de wit

[smirkymonkey]

6. Sounds like a good read.

I will have to keep an eye out for it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. K&R

[world wide wally]

8. Why do voters never notice that all of our very worst, nightmarish Presidents are Republicans?

Nixon, GW Bush, now Trump

I blame the voters

[canetoad]

9. You forgot Reagan

But he had a smiling veneer.

[someoneeelse]

10. ...

Just like ICP, trump doesnt understand simple things (such as batteries)

[Snarkoleptic]

11. K&R

[Achilleaze]

12. The triumph of "Republican Family Values"

Donald Trump is erected by Republicans as the national role model for children.

"...our dark underbelly is also (now) our shameless, dumb exterior..."