Rebecca Solnit on the Corrosive Privilege of the Most Mocked Man in the World

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3. You can tell this section was written before this week

"Surely he must have imagined that more power meant more flattery, a grander image, a greater hall of mirrors reflecting back his magnificence. But he misunderstood power and prominence."

Write this now, and you've have to acknowledge he's assembled a cabinet of wealthy men to provide that flattery he craves.