“As a democracy is perfected, the office of the president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the great folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
H.L. Mencken – article in the Baltimore Evening Sun July 26, 1920
about H.L. Mencken: Henry Louis Mencken (1880 – 1956)
The most prominent newspaperman, book reviewer, and political commentator of his day, Henry Louis Mencken was a libertarian before the word came into usage. His prose is as clear as an azure sky, and his rhetoric as deadly as a rifle shot. Frequent targets of his lance were Franklin Roosevelt and New Deal politics, Comstocks, hygenists, “uplifters”, social reformers of any stripe, boobs & quacks, and the insatiable American appetite for nonsense and gaudy sham.
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