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Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America Highlight

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Rand’s rhetorical strategy was to create the impression of depth through overwhelming verbal quantity, battering the reader with a relentless barrage of meaningless literary curlicues. Take this bit from Galt’s famous speech in Atlas Shrugged:

— Matt Taibbi

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