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Washington Examiner, by Toby Harndin — April 15, 2019
Excerpt:
Now middle-aged, the enfant terrible novelist Bret Easton Ellis, has turned to nonfiction to mock the “childlike fascism” and “demented narcissism” of American liberals that helped put President Trump in the White House and left them facing “mental and emotional collapse.”
For good measure, Ellis, 55, also denounces the “legacy media” in his new book “White” — originally due to be called “White Privileged Male” — describing it as “a moral disaster for the country” that had covered Trump in the 2016 with such bias and “absolute cluelessness” that it assisted him. The Washington Examiner obtained a copy in advance of its publication Tuesday.
Already facing a backlash from the liberal intelligentsia he disdains — a Q&A with the New Yorker was intensely hostile — Ellis has also been praised for his devil-may-care contrarianism. Interview Magazine described “White” as containing “searing points about how the national obsession with being liked at all costs and the silencing of opposing voices under the banner of inclusivity can create its own American hellscape.”
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He places Trump’s 2016 victory and what he sees as the Left’s continued refusal to accept his legitimacy squarely in the context of millennials — those who reached adulthood around the start of the 21st century. He brands them”Generation Wuss” and laments their “oversensitivity, their sense of entitlement, their insistence they were always right despite sometimes overwhelming proof to the contrary, their joint tendencies of overreaction and passive-aggressive possibility.”
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