Adrian Wooldridge reviews in the NYT
two books trying to make sense of the senseless – the slide of the Republican presidential
fracas into bizarre vaudeville, and the puzzling grassroots resonance achieved
by the most unbelievable candidates. The titles of the books are worth noting: Why the Right Went Wrong, and Too Dumb to Fail. Wooldridge’s review itself
contains two punch lines which alone make it worth reading. He says Trump is “more of an exclamation mark than an aberration.” And “the Internet-enabled news-cum-entertainment industry stokes
political resentments even as it creates epistemic anarchy."
