How P.J. O'Rourke Became Republican
Over the years, I watched a fast-driving Maoist turn into his own kind of conservative icon.
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Over the years, I watched a fast-driving Maoist turn into his own kind of conservative icon.
He made us laugh and think in ways we never thought possible.
The writer displayed his wit and political humour as a satirist through many books and articles that spared neither the Democrats nor the Republicans.
The Right writes better than the Left, in the aggregate. That is, if aggregation were something you could get writers to do. Generally speaking, you can’t. They’re not team players. Still, if you corralled enough conservative writers to put together a ballclub, it would be, say, the 1981 Dodgers: Solid, long-lasting infield. Sharp pitching. Good bench. Got the job done. But lacking the individual stars of the Yankees.
Anarchic and libertarian, he said of humorists: ‘We’re the ones switching on the kitchen lights and watching the cockroaches scamper’