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The secret of how to be right is to ask people to justify their views, which is what O'Brien does with his (usually right-wing) callers each morning on his radio show. Each chapter builds around transcripts of callers opining on right-wing hobby horses (Islam, gay people, feminism, Brexit, Trump, etc.), in which they fall apart when James asks them to explain themselves. Shooting fish in a barrel was never so easy, nor more necessary.

"To fully understand Trump and his supporters you need, I think, to actually feel that your whole life is somehow somebody else's fault, that the status and respect you consider your due have somehow been denied you by gay people or black people or Mexicans or feminists."

I love it when an author delights in their bad reviews ? A bad write-up from The S*n is a definite recommendation in my book!
Interesting that "smug" is used as an insult here, as it's also used by tabloid journalist Gary Bushell as an insult towards comedian Stewart Lee, gleefully printed on one of his DVDs. I guess smug equates to "somebody I disagree with, but whose position is backed up with facts and cogent arguments".