The Paranoid Style of Rudy Giuliani
BY JEFFREY TOOBIN
TODAY 12:00 AM
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With his cosmopolitan background, Obama makes an especially tempting target for the paranoid style. He is so easy to portray as foreign, as other, as an emissary from alien civilizations who has managed to insinuate himself into the center of American power. It’s difficult to imagine Giuliani applying the same kind of insults to, say, Hillary Clinton. (She gets others.) Obama is now in the autumn of his Presidency, and the particular venom he attracts from his critics will fade along with his powers.
But the motivation behind the epithets from Giuliani and his allies will endure, and the resentments will find a new target, sooner rather than later.
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