The Mencken of the Election 0
Fred Hobson, a retired professor, draws on the sayings of H. L. Mencken to shed light on Donald Trump’s appeal. I don’t know to what extent I agree with him, but it’s an interesting, if cynical (as was Mencken) take and worth a read. A snippet:
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. . . to bring it back to 2016, most Trump supporters detested The New York Times and the mainstream press, as well as academics or experts of any sort, including scientists who had a fact-based belief in evolution and climate change – which is to say, any of those who presumed to have the answers. Some of their resentment was justified, as they detected the disdain and condescension with which “experts” viewed small-town values and “flyover country.” But it went beyond that. To all too many Trump followers, truth itself was questioned. It was more comforting to rely on Trump’s version of it.
