Goats and the Man
I found this profile of Mickey Kaus to be quite entertaining. You have to like a story with a satisfying narrative arc:
And there is Kaus, 16 years later, still in Venice, earning basically nothing, and both totally isolated and deeply in tune with an angry national moment.
Anti-immigration forces “don’t have business, we don’t have the media, we don’t have the presidency, we don’t have the Senate, we don’t have leadership in the House — and we’re still winning,” he said a few days after having failed to torpedo Paul Ryan’s speakerhood. “So why is that happening?”
Kaus pauses. He’s voted for Barack Obama twice, and the place this is leading may make him slightly uncomfortable.
“The answer is that no one is speaking for the actual voter — except, it turns out, for Donald Trump.”