Trump Tuesday: Zen and the Art of Trolling Trump
Mellow Libertarian Gary Johnson isn’t running for president — he’s running to be America’s bodhisattva in chief.
Gary Johnson, full-time Libertarian presidential candidate and onetime cannabis entrepreneur, only appears to be running on a happiness platform of high times and low taxes.
In fact, this ostentatiously chill 63-year-old is fueled, just like Donald Trump, by outrage over immigrants. Except he thinks they are getting a raw deal.
Johnson was sitting placidly in a Manhattan hotel conference room last week — bodhisattva smile on lips, ear buds dangling around his neck — when I asked him whether he thought Trump was a legit small-government candidate. His grin dissipated like sativa smoke.
“Well, no, I don't think [Trump] represents smaller government!” Johnson told me during a taping of POLITICO’s “Off Message” podcast. “I mean, just what he's talking about when it comes to immigration, in a state that’s 50 percent Hispanic, are...
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