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If you look at the ways in which American Presidents such as Jackson, Polk, Taylor, Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and McKinley were ridiculed in the daily papers in the nineteenth century, you’d have to conclude that both editors and readers were a heartier bunch a hundred years ago, far less intimidated than they appear to be today by pious Emily Postish notions of “respectability.”
~ Philip Roth via The Atlantic

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Steve Bannon is not a warrior for the working man. He’s a salesman in battle gear, with a podcast mic and a passport full of donor meetings. He doesn’t live among the people — he studies them, scripts their anger, then sells it back to them. He’s rebranded himself so many times — naval officer, investment banker, Hollywood producer, political strategist — you’d think he was running a hedge fund in identity.
~ John Mac Ghlionn via The Hill

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