HST was friends with Pat Buchanan too.
I’ve been reading Hunter Thompson since Jr High in the late 1960s.
This is one of the later HST screeds. Where you guys get the idea he was a closet conservative beats me....he did like guns though
That said I still enjoyed some of his work and thought him interesting in a Burroughs sort of way. Military school meeets Beat writer meets wacky mountain recluse.,,very dry wit too...the best kind
here’s his view on what he sees as right wing post 9-11....and the scorn he had for Nixon was legendary
(don’t believe the hype)
“We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world — a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us. No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we’ll kill you.”Well, sh*t on that dumbness, George W. Bush does not speak for me or my son or my mother or my friends or the people I respect in this world. We didn’t vote for these cheap, greedy little killers who speak for America today — and we will not vote for them again in 2002. Or 2004. Or ever. “Who does vote for these dishonest sh*theads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid rich kids like George Bush? “They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us — they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. “And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. F*ck them.””