Matt Taibbi, master of metaphor, vivisects Trump in Rolling Stone
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Matt Taibbi, master of metaphor, vivisects Trump in Rolling Stone

In the hands of a master, metaphor makes prose vivid and memorable. That’s what Matt Taibbi just did with his deconstruction of Donald Trump in Rolling Stone. I’ve written about how inadvertent metaphor overload destroys the lazily edited 500-word article. But metaphors — even lots of them — can make a longer narration dance in…