No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton

Christopher Hitchens

No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Country
Australia
Published
1 June 2012
Pages
240
ISBN
9781743311936

No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton

Christopher Hitchens

‘Clintonism’ is not an idea, or a program; still less is it a principle. It represents what might be termed - were it not for its murk - the distilled essence of consensus politics. Unremarkable in its constituent elements, which are a mixture of opportunist statecraft, crony capitalism, ‘divide and rule’ identity politics, and populist manipulation, Clintonism has nonetheless raised these ordinary practices to the level of theory. It has succeeded, argues the author, because of a stealthy appeal to the waning and insecure forces of an American liberalism gone bad. Christopher Hitchens followed Governor Clinton through New Hampshire in 1992, and remained an assiduous student of his methods ever since.

In No One Left to Lie To, Hitchens profiles the rise and decline of some prominent Clintonoids, from George Stephanopoulos to the First Lady. He scrutinizes the debased new language in which the discourse of Clintonism has been couched, and proposes that, if successful, the Clinton machine will become the model of pseudo-democracy for the coming century.

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