past prologue
Pat Buchanan and William Safire are in a bull-session writing alliterative phrases for Vice President Agnew. They high-five at “nattering nabobs of negativity”. Somewhere along the line, Safire writes down “bleached blonde bad built butch body”. Hands it over. Buchanan stared at the paper, says “I don’t get it”, crumples the paper and throws it into the waste basket.
I throw my hands a little at one point made in Marjorie Taylor Greene. It is the effects of gerrymandering, they cry. We need to fix partisan gerrymandering, a production that has in the past two decades gotten sophisticated past anything perceived prior to this century. Never mind that Greene’s district is the same geographic area, largely, as that of Congressman Larry MacDonald, John Birch Society President. They get their congressional representative and unless we are thinking “decimate that one”, that just becomes a re-gerrymander.