“Snotty”? Yes
“Superior”? Yes
“Plea”? Not really
“Tolerance”? No
I’ll get to doing a more detailed break-down of this article, sent in by an Occasional Reader. It’s an Aussie journalist, Shaun Micallef, making a kind of half-arsed attempt at humour cum analysis of why Trump won. So you get where I’m coming from already. Bu there’s more to it than that.
Meantime, here’s the link to the article in Crikey mag. And the first couple paras:
Wow! I completely misread the room on that one. Mind you, in my defence, I wasn’t actually inthe room. Frankly, the room was too far away for me to even listen at the door and I only had news clips and reports to go off.
The room was America, and I was in Australia, safe and secure and a little smug about the whole thing. I was convinced, given the gaffes and the gaslighting and the general level of Grand Guignol on display, that there was no way on God’s green earth he was going to win. But then I thought that too in 2016 and was proved resoundingly wrong.
Why the hell did I trust those clearly biased instincts again? Was it because I’d convinced myself he’d frayed his base since then and things would be even more perilous for him than in 2020? Read on...
