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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More specifically, he was opposed to Truman's "national security state."
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Vidal was also an anti-Semite.
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yeah but Vidal was thoughtful with a deep knowledge of history and read a lot - This guy not so much
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NB: Vidal's era USSR, a internationalist communist dictatorship. Trump's era Russia, an autocratic nationalist state.
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Vidal believed fervently that the US was meant to be a republic and had become an empire, whose people deluded themselves. 1/2
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Have read most of his essays and he was a relatively isolationist patriot in his way, but don't get the "America First" dig. 2/2
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- he was when he was in high school (then joined the Navy) and near the end of his life, when dementia took over, but in between?
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