In his book The Dome, his characters caricatured Cheney as an evil schemer, and Bush as a hapless but well-meaning dunce. He just has no comprehension of anything in the real world.
“He just has no comprehension of anything in the real world.”
Well, Maine is a bit off the beaten path. And look at his genre. I read a lot of his early stuff, his short stories were very good. But living with that stuff in your head all the time can’t be a good thing.