DES MOINES, Iowa—By the time R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” came on for the third time at Donald Trump’s Thursday night rally at Drake University’s basketball arena in Des Moines, Iowa, I was ready to lose my mind, having already lost my religion sometime in high school.\n
By the time R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” came on for the third time at Donald Trump’s Thursday night rally at Drake University’s basketball arena in Des Moines, Iowa, I was ready to lose my mind, having already lost my religion sometime in high school.
I had entered as the Backstreet Boys’ hit “I Want It That Way” blared over the speakers, which was certainly a musical choice that had been made. When the gay anthem “Macho Man” by the Village People began playing—“Every man wants to be a macho man / To have the kind of body always in demand”—we all knew Trump was about to come on stage.
He then asked me if the ballcap he was trying on fit his head. I said no, because it did not. Gary launched, again without my asking, into his assessment of the Democratic field. “They won’t let Bernie win,” he said, “they” being the Democratic Party. “Bloomberg is a great guy, he’s a businessman. He wouldn’t ruin the country.
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