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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Sep 2020

      Hypothesis: All memoirs by right-wing pundits are attempts to answer the question, "why does no one like me?" See: Toby Young's How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, Barbara Amiel's Friends & Enemies. Norman Podhoretz's Ex-Friends. Martin Peretz's promised The Book of Grudges.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Sep 2020

      The great exception to this rule is William F. Buckley, who God knows had his faults but also had the gift for friendship. His memoirs aren't spiteful but, on the contrary, suffer from the complacency of untroubled happiness.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Sep 2020

      The prototype of the right-wing memoirist who revels in being hated is Wyndham Lewis, the great & terrible monster of modernism. He once published a one-man magazine called The Enemy & wrote two grudge-filled memoirs (Blasting and Bombardiering, Rude Assignment)

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        1. Matt Keeley‏ @mattkeeley 6 Sep 2020
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          At least Lewis has the saving virtue of genius. Though I think the most unpleasant rightwing genius remains Evelyn Waugh. Guy was just the worst!

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        2. John Osborn  🏳️‍🌈‏ @john_osborn 6 Sep 2020
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          Imagine being a young person and discovering that people don’t like you because you’re an ass, then deciding to spend your life working to make being an ass good rather than just starting to care about other people.

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        3. Dr. Chris Torn and Frayed Wilhelm‏ @cwilhelm2014 6 Sep 2020
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          Sure, but now there's a whole political party for people like that. And that's why they don't want us voting.

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        1. DevonSwede‏ @FSvedang 6 Sep 2020
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          Few right wingers or left wingers for that matter are known for their sunny outlook on life even before they reach the age to write memoirs.

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        1. Tarbuckle‏ @Tarbuckle69 6 Sep 2020
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          And penned the ne plus ultra of caustic Canadiana in Self Condemned...

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        1. Nik Sheehan‏ @NikSheehan 6 Sep 2020
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          Add to that his 1954 masterpiece Self Condemned.

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        1. Howard Schrader‏ @hschrader 6 Sep 2020
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          See also Whitaker Chambers

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