The unique perspective and provocative opinions of Joe O’Neill
Media Matters
Omarosa Manigault. Sean Spicer. Corey Lewandowski. Sometimes it seems that there is zero separation between politics and show business. Not to be naïve or anti-capitalist, but must the marketplace be this accommodating to blatant, career-first opportunists still leveraging their Trump connections? Yeah, you’re right; it is naïve.
For any journalist who’s covered Florida politics over the last three decades or so, very few sources can rival M. “Mac” Stipanovich as a quote machine. He was that way when he was counseling Bob Martinez in his gubernatorial run. He’s still that way as a Republican strategist assessing this disturbing, chaotic, Trump-driven political landscape. To wit: “Fundamentally, MAGA is reactionary, and it’s anti-intellectual and paranoid. … It’s a manifestation of fear and anxiety by a declining ethnic majority.” Alas.