Earlier, Jonah had a post about McKay Coppins’s fascinating piece about Donald Trump: the anxieties and resentments that drive him. Reading Coppins’s piece, especially about Trump’s early years, I could not help thinking of Norman Podhoretz — who wrote one of the most famous opening lines of recent literary history.
It begins his 1967 memoir, Making It: “One of the longest journeys in the world is the journey from Brooklyn to Manhattan.”
Trump lived in Queens. But his father worked in Brooklyn. Anyway, I think Norman would agree that his line applies, strongly.