Britt’s Reviews > Double Down: Game Change 2012 > Status Update

I have been reading this book for approximately one hundred years.

"On June 27, the day of her official announcement in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, Bachmann proclaimed in a Fox News interview that 'John Wayne was from Waterloo.' (Wayne was in fact from Winterset, Iowa; serial killer John Wayne Gacy was from Waterloo.) From now on, her son Lucas razzed his mother, 'you can't say George Washington was the first president unless we Google that shit first.'"

"One way of seeing all this was as a symptom of postmillennial decay, the degradation of public discourse, and the encroachment of celebrity worship into the arena of national affairs. Another way of looking at it was as an indication of the GOP's state of disarray. Then there was the way Trump perceived the thing: as a manifestation of his magnificence..."