Chuck Klosterman Lived Through This

“The boilerplate portrait of the American nineties makes the whole era look like a low-risk grunge cartoon,” Klosterman writes in his introduction. “That portrait is imperfect. It is not, however, wildly incorrect.”

Mildly amusing when towards the end the interviewer rags on him that his musical/political revisiting of the ‘90s doesn’t include rap or the stuff that was held as critical to a later woke narrative he’s basically like “dude, I’m Chuck fucking Klosterman”

He makes a good point that we don’t think about him much today but if he tilted the '92 election and interrupted Bush the Elder’s attempt to reorient the GOP around Christian Democracy by subbing in Bill Clinton 2 years before the Congressional Republican Revolution, Ross Perot might have been the biggest author of today’s politics