Right-wing 'hucksters' want to convince you there's substance behind Trump's weird hair and...
Right-wing ‘hucksters’ want to convince you there’s ‘substance behind Trump’s weird hair and too-long ties’: critic
DAVID FERGUSON
03 JUL 2017 AT 10:33 ET
New Republic critic Alex Shephard blasted three new books by conservative authors Hugh Hewitt of MSNBC, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and Fox News host Eric Bolling, each of whom, Shephard said, struggles to form a coherent political philosophy out of President Trump’s scattershot agenda and ever-shifting positions.
Liberals and conservatives writing about Trump, Shephard said, are struggling to establish that “there must be a person of substance behind the weird hair and the too-long ties — that there is a profound truth amidst the tweets and the hoopla and the bombast.”
He continued, “Six months into Trump’s first term, however, there is no evidence that there is any depth to the man. The real Trump is the one right in front of us, tweeting about the blood coming from Mika Brzezinski’s face. He has almost no grasp of policy, and takes no interest in it. He has no ideological convictions, even if he has a raw, emotional understanding of the politics of white grievance. He acts like the extremely wealthy and privileged man he is, without fear of consequence.”
This hasn’t stopped three right-wing authors from trying to claim that the Trump phenomenon is confirmation and justification for their own personal beliefs, however.
Hugh Hewitt’s new book The Fourth Way: The Conservative Playbook For a Lasting GOP Majority, Shephard wrote, “like its author, is comically pretentious.” Hewitt trots out a parade of platitudes and vagaries that serve as conventional wisdom in the AM talk radio demimonde from which he sprang.
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