Thursday, November 09, 2017

Good writing

Rick Wilson is an anti-Trump GOP operative, but he also happens to be a very good writer. His latest piece about Carter Page is excellent, but I find myself most drawn to his good writing, like this paragraph...

The delta between Trump’s imagination of himself and the brand image that he desperately wants to sell is always wide; he’s the “billionaire” lout playing the Manhattan sophisticate who gorges on fast food. He’s a man with a lemur wig and a five-pound bolus of chin-wattle who think’s he’s irresistible to women. He’s the serially bankrupt master of the Art of the Deal. The TV talk show character who snuck into the Oval Office on a tide of Russian influence and now thinks he won on the merits.

Five pound bolus of chin-wattle. That's some good shit right there.