The Most Pathetic Men in America

From The Most Pathetic Men in America:

Trump is an extremely tedious dude to have had in our face for seven years and running. My former New York Times colleague David Brooks wrote it best: “We’ve got this perverse situation in which the vast analytic powers of the entire world are being spent trying to understand a guy whose thoughts are often just six fireflies beeping randomly in a jar. Better objects of our scrutiny—and far more compelling to me—are the slavishly devoted Republicans whom Trump drew to his side.

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