Once Taibbi began attending Trump’s rageoholic populist rallies in early 2016, though, he sobered up and delivered a darker vision of a country menaced by media manipulation. Early on in the race, he was casually establishing debate drinking-game rules and speculating about (of all things) who’d play John Kasich in the movie version of the campaign. Trump in the field ran the risk of his becoming “the most dangerous person in America.” But even up until Election Day, Taibbi never quite believed Trump had a chance at the White House. In August 2015, he was having a sardonic laugh at the “GOP clown car,” the dire assortment of Republican presidential candidates. This collection of long- and short-form reports by Taibbi ( The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap, 2014, etc.) unfolds as a comedy that slowly turns into a horror movie. Looking back in bemusement and (eventually) anger at the 2016 presidential campaign with Rolling Stone’s pugnacious political correspondent.
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