Joe Vilas<p>"It’s not hard to see why this fiction appealed to Santos, and why it appealed to his voters. It made him into an avatar of America itself.</p><p>"Maybe he is. Because with his boldness and deception, his shamelessness and alleged comfort with financial malfeasance, Santos, with all his lies, seems to reveal an uncomfortable truth about American politics, emphasizing what the politics writer John Ganz called 'the reign of crime.'" <a href="https://triangletoot.party/tags/Santos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Santos</span></a> <a href="https://triangletoot.party/tags/Devolder" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Devolder</span></a> <a href="https://triangletoot.party/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://triangletoot.party/tags/NY03" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NY03</span></a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/14/george-santos-politician-americans-deserve" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2023/jan/14/george-santos-politician-americans-deserve</span></a></p>