{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Chuck Klosterman Lived Through This", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/675688740390305792/", "html": "<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf='{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https://href.li/?https://www.vulture.com/article/chuck-klosterman-interview-the-nineties.html?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=One%20Great%20Story%20-%20February%208%2C%202022&amp;utm_term=Subscription%20List%20-%20One%20Great%20Story\",\"display_url\":\"https://href.li/?https://www.vulture.com/article/chuck-klosterman-interview-the-nineties.html?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=One%20Great%20Story%20-%20February%208%2C%202022&amp;utm_term=Subscription%20List%20-%20One%20Great%20Story\",\"title\":\"Chuck Klosterman Lived Through This\",\"description\":\"In his book The Nineties, he tried to write about the decade as it felt at the time \u2014 at least to some people.\",\"site_name\":\"Vulture\",\"poster\":[{\"media_key\":\"b101b8f691fd1b409dc061b7e54767f9:97d3dbe9658f8f88-13\",\"type\":\"image/jpeg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":630}]}'><a href=\"https://href.li/?https://www.vulture.com/article/chuck-klosterman-interview-the-nineties.html?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=One%20Great%20Story%20-%20February%208%2C%202022&amp;utm_term=Subscription%20List%20-%20One%20Great%20Story\" target=\"_blank\">Chuck Klosterman Lived Through This</a></p><blockquote class=\"npf_indented\"><p>\u201cThe boilerplate portrait of the American nineties makes the whole era look like a low-risk grunge cartoon,\u201d Klosterman writes in his introduction. \u201cThat portrait is imperfect. It is not, however, wildly incorrect.\u201d</p></blockquote><p>Mildly amusing when towards the end the interviewer rags on him that his musical/political revisiting of the &lsquo;90s doesn&rsquo;t include rap or the stuff that was held as critical to a later woke narrative he&rsquo;s basically like &ldquo;dude, I&rsquo;m Chuck fucking Klosterman&rdquo;</p><p>He makes a good point that we don&rsquo;t think about him much today but if he tilted the '92 election and interrupted Bush the Elder&rsquo;s attempt to reorient the GOP around Christian Democracy by subbing in Bill Clinton 2 years before the Congressional Republican Revolution, <i>Ross Perot</i> might have been the biggest author of today&rsquo;s politics </p>"}