Anybody else notice that the title of this essay has the word Hijacked; but strangely, the word hijacked doesn’t appear anywhere in the text. If this were a newspaper, that wouldn’t be terribly surprising because the headlines are written by editors, not by journalists/authors, and you get mismatches all the time. You learn to ignore that. But here, we’re totally on the web, right? This wasn’t reproduced from a newspaper. It’s about the web, anyway. So it’s supposed to be about Trump hijacks authenticity, but that’s not discussed; something else — — several things — — are discussed, but this authenticity thing, that’s just something to dance around like a totem pole. Tell you one thing — — it definitely lacks authenticity to announce that you’re going to talk about hijacking something and then you don’t talk about any hijacking of anything. Authenticity is pretty much of a lit crit topic, so you have to be sharp and honest intellectually, not just throw words around. That problem foreshadowed a later more serious problem with this essay, where the author gets it totally wrong about the phrase “politically correct”. I won’t even bother to delineate the problems. Trust me — it’s all ignorant. I was there.