You Asked. I Answer.

Part IV: Why is the Orange Man bad, Claire? Plus: What Turkey got for relenting on Sweden's NATO entry.

The Orange man is, actually, bad.

I truly didn’t realize this AMA would result in so many questions, or that I’d be asked so many questions that deserve complex answers. If I keep writing newsletter-length essays in response to every question, this exercise will go on for years. That’s not necessarily bad. I’d rather write an essay that I know for sure someone wants to read than one no one cares about. But there’s a lot happening in the world that we should be covering, and I’m totally over my funk.

So today I’m going to race through the answers, but if you don’t feel I’ve answered the question sufficiently, tell me. I’ll put it on a list for later and write a longer essay about it. Still, today, this will be brief. Or more brief.

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13. You trash-talk Orangeman Bad at every opportunity, even leaping way out of the context of a particular essay to do so, yet you seem astonished that some minuscule fragment of your paid readership don’t share quite so dim a view of his talents and accomplishments, as mixed they may be. … What’s the legitimate basis of your obsession?