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The central-SC countryside looks blasted, the skies the color of low-grade steel, the land all dead sod...the mix of conifer and palm is dissonant in a bad-dream sort of way...eighteen-wheelers and pickups are the buses' only company, and the pickups are rusted and all have gun racks and right-wing bumper stickers...it must be spooky down here in the summer, all wet moss and bog-steam and dogs with visible ribs...

...Part of the reason is that I was absurdly proud of my Rolling Stone press badge and of the fact that most of the...campaign staff referred to me as "the guy from Rolling Stone." I will confess that I even borrowed a friend's battered old black leather jacket to wear on the Trail so I'd better project the kind of edgy, vaguely dangerous vibe I imagined an RS reporter ought to give off.

You know, this book could almost be about Bernie 2016. Hell, even Trump 2016. The difference there though would be that while McCain started to feel the pinch of the Republican Party, Trump said eff you guys.

There's also a bit of '16 in how the young people approached politics then and how it's about politicians not wanting to deal with young people because they "don't matter". This needs to change in 2018 and on.