Optimistic to a Fault

Hunter Thompson was one of a few people in the country to foresee the dark rightward lurch that the Republican Party was beginning to take. "I really hope you win it because letting your kind of human garbage flood the system is about the only real way to clean it out," he wrote after Barry Goldwater's 1964 RNC speech. He writes later quote that he was actually feeling afraid because I was the only person not clapping and shouting.