You speak of the GOP letting it’s freak flag fly. I’m rereading Norman Mailer’s “Miami and the Siege of Chicago”, about the 1968 conventions, and he wrote this of the GOP convention:
“On & on they came, the well-bred, the extraordinarily prosperous,and, for the most astonishing part, the entirely proper. Yes, in San Francisco in ‘64, they…
You speak of the GOP letting it’s freak flag fly. I’m rereading Norman Mailer’s “Miami and the Siege of Chicago”, about the 1968 conventions, and he wrote this of the GOP convention:
“On & on they came, the well-bred, the extraordinarily prosperous,and, for the most astonishing part, the entirely proper. Yes, in San Francisco in ‘64, they had been able to be insane for a little while, but now they were subdued, now they were modest, now they were looking for a leader to bring America back to them, their lost America….the Wasp had come to take power.”.
I wish Mailer were around to chronicle this year. This time it’s not flashy Miami but workman Milwaukee where they get to be a lot insane, no longer modest or subdued, having found a leader to bring America back to them, its rightful owner. There will be no normies telling them to “vote their consciences”. The Wasp has come to flash its stinger.
And to think that people felt like the country was spinning off its axis in ‘68.
You speak of the GOP letting it’s freak flag fly. I’m rereading Norman Mailer’s “Miami and the Siege of Chicago”, about the 1968 conventions, and he wrote this of the GOP convention:
“On & on they came, the well-bred, the extraordinarily prosperous,and, for the most astonishing part, the entirely proper. Yes, in San Francisco in ‘64, they had been able to be insane for a little while, but now they were subdued, now they were modest, now they were looking for a leader to bring America back to them, their lost America….the Wasp had come to take power.”.
I wish Mailer were around to chronicle this year. This time it’s not flashy Miami but workman Milwaukee where they get to be a lot insane, no longer modest or subdued, having found a leader to bring America back to them, its rightful owner. There will be no normies telling them to “vote their consciences”. The Wasp has come to flash its stinger.
And to think that people felt like the country was spinning off its axis in ‘68.
Or Hunter Thompson. Or Tom Wolfe. There'll be someone, some day.
I also miss PJ O'Rourke.