Philip Roth on Trump
Jan. 29th, 2017 05:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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The master himself speaks about his eerily prescient novel and current politics.
"I found much that was alarming about being a citizen during the tenures of Richard Nixon and George W. Bush. But, whatever I may have seen as their limitations of character or intellect, neither was anything like as humanly impoverished as Trump is: ignorant of government, of history, of science, of philosophy, of art, incapable of expressing or recognizing subtlety or nuance, destitute of all decency, and wielding a vocabulary of seventy-seven words that is better called Jerkish than English.”
The master himself speaks about his eerily prescient novel and current politics.
"I found much that was alarming about being a citizen during the tenures of Richard Nixon and George W. Bush. But, whatever I may have seen as their limitations of character or intellect, neither was anything like as humanly impoverished as Trump is: ignorant of government, of history, of science, of philosophy, of art, incapable of expressing or recognizing subtlety or nuance, destitute of all decency, and wielding a vocabulary of seventy-seven words that is better called Jerkish than English.”
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Date: 2017-01-30 02:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2017-01-31 09:08 pm (UTC)Слушай, тебе должен Путин нравиться и Янукович - тот придумал титушек.
Кто все эти люди?
Date: 2017-01-30 02:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-01-30 03:47 am (UTC)https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/opinion/white-women-voted-trump-now-what.html
обращаю отдельное внимание на фотографию. у всех женщин прически как у Трампа, той же формы и того же цвета.
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Date: 2017-01-30 04:22 pm (UTC)Уточнение
Date: 2017-01-30 05:11 pm (UTC)