Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Lies, Politics and Democracy: J. Michael Luttig (interview) | FRONTLINE" video.

  1.  @inevolution1  James, Hitchens (whom you should Google up: an interesting and in some ways important fella) was -- like a lot of people whose IQs are just a wee bit too high -- a Trotskyite who eventually slowed down enough to become a widely respected commentator. He was usually on the moderate left, expressed with great wit and some sharpness, but sometimes on the right. A libertarian in both left and right senses: an ACLU guy, but also a Karl Hess-ish anarchist sometimes. The "very orthodoxy" that Hitchens is referring to here is flat-out authoritarianism of the Louis XiV, George III, Donald Trump kind. "L'etat c'est moi; Only I can fix it." That's the sense in which Hitchens saw (he died, sadly, very recently) Donald Trump as a throw-back.
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