And other discoveries from Mark Chuisano’s recent exposé on the New York Congressman. WORDS BY MIKELLE STREET HEADER BY YOSEF PHELAN George Santos is the politician no one wants but that America probably deserves.
And while that seems like a celebratory yas, slay, “embrace the villain edit” quip, it’s more just a (possibly cynical) reading of American pop culture and the post-Trump political landscape.
At least that’s the tale that Mark Chiusano spins in The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos.
If you don’t know the story, George Anthony Devolder Santos is the unlikely Brazilian-American Queens, New York-native that climbed his way up into the United States Congress.