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What Would Christopher Hitchens Have Done About Trump?

Would he have rebelled against the biggest bully, or against the bullying consensus?

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Jonathan V. Last
July 19, 2022∙ Paid
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Christopher Hitchens on May 17, 2010 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Marvin Joseph /The Washington Post via Getty Images)

1. WWHD?

When I want to get really depressed, I play a game where I wonder what various people I respected would have done about Donald Trump, had they not been called home before his rise.

This big Harper’s piece about Chris Hitchens got …

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