RJ Eskow: Is Sarah Palin the First Post-Modern Politician?

Let's start with a multiple-choice question: Which answer is correct?

If you answered #1 or #2 you missed the point. Sarah Palin is not part of your frame of reference. She isn't participating in the worldview you share with your allies and opponents alike. She's the Id of American politics, the repository and expression of a deep-seated psychic urge to blow up the political world as we've come to understand it. She's the dark secret behind Door #3, the conjured vision of a deep-seated lurking anger that is greater than her own.

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