Everything and anything could be skewered with stiletto-like finesse, and nothing was sacred: Vidal maintained that various prominent Jewish intellectuals acted as an Israeli fifth column, argued that the family was largely a means of keeping workers in their exploited place and concluded that in American democracy, “numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”
via Gore Vidal dies; imperious gadfly and prolific, graceful writer was 86 – The Washington Post.