The writing was on the wall when John McCain unleashed Sarah Palin

McCain’s running mate was the non-expert who represented ordinary people, who preached a kind of anti-intellectualism and ultimately a far-right anti-politics – it was all there in 2008Just before Barack Obama first won the presidency, I was covering John McCain’s rallies in Kentucky. The people I met there convinced me that McCain might win, that this was no done deal. I was working with a writer who happened to be black – David Matthews – and at one rally we were