Is It Possible to Write an Entertaining Account of Nice People at Political Parties?

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Good morning! Sam Kriss writes about attending Donald Trump’s second inauguration in The Lamp. He does the whole journalist-boozes-his-way-through-an-evening-with-reptilian-s…