he was too bright to fit into any retarded label that we throw around.
This.
Personally I think alot of his admiration for McCarthy and McGovern was due to what he felt was their 'humanness' and their perceived decency and that they weren't typical politicians.. and were against Nixon. But I don't think HST was particularly interested in politics-as-ideology. He greatly admired 60s San Fransisco hippies after all. Politics was a blood sport he watched for entertainment in large part. Same as most of us.
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