Andrew O'Hehir
Executive Editor at Salon
Freelance Writer at The Hollywood Reporter
Exec editor (politics), columnist, vid talking head. Salon. Not promising I won't still write about movies most people hate.
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1 month ago |
salon.com | Andrew O'Hehir
During the ritual humiliation of Irish prime minister Micheál Martin’s pre-St. Patrick’s Day visit to the White House — which I wrote about here last week — Donald Trump was asked to name his favorite Irish person. The president appeared briefly baffled, and witticisms flowed for the next day or so on both sides of the Atlantic. (Does Sean Hannity count as “Irish”? Does Shaquille O’Neal?) His eventual response was “Conor,” meaning mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor.
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1 month ago |
salon.com | Andrew O'Hehir
A cousin of mine in Ireland — whom I won’t identify, given the 50/50 chance they end up reading this — texted me recently to say that for the first time, they felt actively frightened of America and Americans.
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1 month ago |
salon.com | Andrew O'Hehir
Ten or 15 years ago, Friedrich Merz would have seemed a wildly unlikely candidate for the role of savior to Europe’s liberal democracy. Spoiler alert: He still does. But the internal decay of European politics has reached a critical stage, whose stakes were made abundantly clear by the ludicrous spectacle of Donald Trump and JD Vance berating Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office for insufficiently groveling before the Orange Throne.
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2 months ago |
salon.com | Andrew O'Hehir
John Adams famously wrote (quoting 17th-century political philosopher James Harrington) that a republic was “an Empire of Laws, and not of Men.” Donald Trump, if he has ever noticed that quotation or thought about it, thinks it’s a load of pious liberal crap. One of America’s big problems, at this moment of maximum existential and constitutional crisis, is that a whole lot of us believe, or suspect, that he isn’t entirely wrong.
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2 months ago |
salon.com | Andrew O'Hehir
You can’t out-think Donald Trump. You can’t think your way around him or through him and get to the other side — there’s no there there. In fact, thinking about Donald Trump is generally a bad idea, like thinking too much about Cthulhu or the Candyman, and should be avoided whenever possible. Didn’t old Fred Nietzsche say something about gazing too long into the abyss?
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