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The other side of the coin?

One thing Obama’s hopefully learned is that this idea that he came in with, bipartisanship, is not going to work. What you have in the Tea Party is basically an insurgency. You have people who want America to fail, who want an American government to disappear. It’s a revolutionary group by any other name. You can't negotiate with these people: you have to outflank them every which way you can.

The other side of the coin, and a lot of people don’t want to talk about it for obvious reasons, is that it is a racist movement. These people cannot deal with the fact that there is a black person in the Oval Office. It doesn't matter what he does – he could decide tomorrow to cut the deficit, bolster the military and take away Medicare and welfare, and they would still hate him. He came in very idealistically, and I think if he wins the second term there's going to be none of that. I hope that it’s a good win on his part and I hope he takes his mandate and really does something with it.

- Gary Shteyngart on Obama: ‘Bipartisanship is not going to work’, interviewed by Killian Fox, Guardian.co.uk, October 14, 2017.

3. Carolina Milanesi, smartphones and tablets analyst at the research company Gartner, says: “Interestingly this [distraction element] is the first thing I thought of – not that Glass was giving you something that phones cannot give you, in terms of sharing or accessing content, but that they do it without letting others realise you are doing anything. In other words, with the phone, if I am taking a picture, the person I am focusing on will likely notice me; with Glass they do not.”