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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8. Vidal the supposed radical might seem world's away from Trump but there is an interesting congruence.
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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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Not sure I'd call Pournelle (let alone Niven) "far right wing". Militaristic right wing, f'shizzle.
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Vidal's one step away from "the yellow menace" there.
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what's the citation for this Gore Vidal quote?
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In fact, Vidal advanced this US-Rus alliance first in 1982, in his run against Jerry Brown for the Democratic Primary for Senate.
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That reminds me: Is China still working to reclaim portions of Siberia from Russia?
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Vidal, iconoclast. Breadth of historical vision on nanoscale
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This really sounds like Duke from Doonesbury. A very tricky people...
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From Globe-trotting friends & ex-pats say we've already ticked Vidal's "entertainment" box.
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