Excerpt from The Cynic and the Fool

While preparing for my upcoming event (Denver, November 9th) on The Cynic & the Fool, I came across this section. I even added a footnote just before publishing in order to clarify the timeline. It reads like such a transparent and uncreative allusion to a certain somebody, who declared his candidacy a day after I finished the book’s rough draft, but I was just trying to think through all of the most absurd things a conservative politician in the US could get away with pretending to believe.