Is Cormac McCarthy “Based”?

Is Cormac McCarthy “Based”?

Legendary novelist Cormac McCarthy is often hailed by the Right as one of its own. The truth is more complicated. Incest, cannibalism, necrophilia, murder, and war on a metaphysical level are often-favored Cormac McCarthy topics. (David Styles / Wikimedia Commons) If there was ever an author who screamed “the great American novelist,” it’s Cormac McCarthy. From 1965’s The Orchard Keeper to the twinned publication of The Passenger with its compa…