1. I have a few brief thoughts on Gore Vidal, the National Enquirer, Donald Trump, Sino/Russian/American relations & 1970s science fiction.
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9. Vidal was his entire life an "America First" isolationist opposed to FDR-created world order. That's also Trump's foreign policy lineage
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More specifically, he was opposed to Truman's "national security state."
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Vidal was a populist with a lifelong attachment to America First movement & Charles Lindbergh. Les extrêmes se touchent.
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9. Vidal's 1986 essay The Empire Lovers Strike Back admirable for being honest about the racism of this vision:https://books.google.ca/books?id=m1GDAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT42&lpg=PT42&dq=vidal+the+empire+lovers+strike+back+sino-japanese&source=bl&ots=iaZJwBfEAa&sig=-3KbAtfCdbclkJ4RKeGT31EbjW8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiM9pLQirzRAhVF54MKHVd7DnAQ6AEIKzAD#v=onepage&q=vidal%20the%20empire%20lovers%20strike%20back%20sino-japanese&f=false …
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I knew there was a good reason I hated that pompous jackass.
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