Cuomo, Trump and the Secret of Eternal Political Life
12th August 2021
The Hamptons was once most famous for the writers and artists who quit the city to come out here. Now the eastern end of Long Island is most famous for its billionaires. It occurs to me that the disappearance of working writers in the Hamptons mirrors the absence of writers in US public life. This has left the most confounding story of our time, with a character as beguiling to many as he is monstrous to others, to political reporters specializing in policy, government procedures, and the means and ends of political agendas. The mindset of the official media has arguably prevented it from being able to enter and depict Donald Trump’s spectacularly insane world. Hence, the most transparent man on Earth — a man who seeks nothing more than to be on permanent public display — remains inscrutable.