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right stuff
Wonderful article, astounding. I wrote in criticizing the recent Manjoo article on the 2004 vote and must say: this is more like it. Blumenthal's fresh and frank writing is one of the reasons why Salon really matters, and I thank him and Salon for it.
I recall a clear feeling during W's second inauguration that there was an Oedipal moment being writ hugely on the world - manifest destiny II as couched by a grotesquely triumphant teen. Icky.
Sydney Blumenthal is a national treasure. He connects the personal and the political to illuminate the petty means to a tragic end. Bravo.