POPULISTS AND PLUTOCRATS UNITE!
I was in a 7-Eleven
last Sunday morning for a restorative post-jog donut, when a big,
late-middle-aged man with a MAGA hat and a matching red face came in. He
grabbed a few tall-boys and a bag of ice, and made his way to the check-out
line. To my reasonably educated eye (and nose) those particular tall-boys
weren't going to be the first of the day.
In all the
kaleidoscope of images from the first two weeks of Trump's reign, there is
something about this man that I cannot get out of my head. To say he seemed out
of place in my 83%-for-Hillary Congressional District would be an
understatement—but there he was. Wow—a perfect specimen of a stereotypical
Trump voter as if drawn in an editorial cartoon! Obviously, I wasn't actually
going to interact with him, but this rara avis had somehow wandered into my
cloistered neck of the woods and even allowed himself to helped by the
Pakistani staff in the store.
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