Tuesday 30 May 2017

Rebecca Solnit on how Trump's quest for more adulation made him "the most mocked man in the world"

It's early days in the Trump trainwreck, but Rebecca Solnit's astonishing, beautiful, visceral essay "The Loneliness of Donald Trump" may well end up being the defining moment of the Trump presidency, in which Solnit uses the incisive wit that gave us the term "mansplaining" to explain Trump. (more…)