Mencken

In 1956, shortly before his death, Mencken went even further; “American journalism is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.”

Mencken, slipped supinely into the estate and dignity of a golf player.

Mencken once said, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”

Mencken, who was a dab hand at writing with great verve about how much he hated just about everything.

Mencken once wrote, victims of their own mysticism.