Hindsight, however, tends to read chance as fate and choice as destiny.
He also tends to read history backwards as if the extremities of medieval anti-Semitism inform contemporary inequities.
Also, after the zeitgeisty opening about the blue-collar disco tribe, [Tribal Rites] is all narrative, and that much narrative detail tends to read as real.
In general, I think the political class tends to read unique political moments as permanent electoral shifts — which is why so many people who should have known better were talking about a semi-permanent Republican majority after 2004, and why so many people left the G.O.P. for dead after 2008.
He drives a Chevrolet Malibu, tends to read nonfiction like Robert A. Caro's multivolume biography of Lyndon B. Johnson and Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, and is superstitious enough to wear the same suit and eat at the same Burger King in Torrington every Election Day.
His gut is pooching outward in a way that, in a more enlightened country like, say, France, would perhaps be considered virile, not unlike the lusty Gérard Depardieu in his prime but, in fitness-fascist America, tends to read as Homer Simpsonesque.
