To be more precise, I think both Yglesias and Kirchick are wrong. Hitchens' aggressive anti-PC sensibility would have made him even more popular now than when alive & he wouldn't have been pro-Trump.
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That’s so much less fun to fight about though.
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When you consider the bastard children of Hitchens like Sam Harris, there might be a case here.
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Also Clinton hate. It's easy to imagine him as a talking head in Clinton Cash.
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Are we really this many tweets deep into a discussion of whether or not a bigot would love Trump?
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hmmm . . . seeing Iraq war thru theological eyes would pit Saddam's religiosity against Bush's. Probably Bush's was more genuine (insofar as the term applies to human attributes of rich and powerful). If theology was the issue, Hitchens' brain was addled, by racism most likely
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Hitchens cast his first vote as an American citizen for Barack Obama.
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I can see & live with that
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Hitchens poisons everything
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I don't think Hitchens would have supported Trump simply because Trump has the intellectual rigor of a bowl of Jell-O
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