Gavin Newsom, the governor of California is everywhere at the moment, earnestly assuring Americans of his unwavering loyalty to poor, senile Biden, while at the same time frantically pitching to replace him. This sort of deep duplicity comes quite naturally to Newsom, who is, God help America, a huckster of a very familiar sort.
It’s astonishing that anyone who’s presided over this mess could be a feasible candidate for president, yet here we are
Back in the late 1990s, when I lived in Dallas, Texas, I became fascinated by television evangelists. They were snake-oil sellers to a man, offering healing or ‘financial blessings’ in exchange for donations – usually a very specific sum that the Lord had revealed to them. What interested me was how they had the brass neck to do it, to take cash from the poor and spend it on mansions and NetJets, and it was a while before I understood.
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