Tinyman. But who was his opposition?

Dave Mean and Al Nasty...

The Mean and Nasty bumperstickers could be seen on every Lexus and Fairlane, their signs could be seen in yards in the company of stone geese ....

Mean and Nasty were poised, historically, to be the last conservatives. They were so obviously prejudiced and stupid that the majority of their supporters felt alienated by them. There were a considerable number of billionaires in America. Well, actually, there were only a handful, but still a significant number. And these billionaires were only looking for a candidate to protect their interests. The Mean and Nasty initiatives—"Making America run the gauntlet"—were too alarmingly asinine for even the rich and bigoted to fully sign off on. Such as the death penalty for casual marijuana use. Or mandatory search and seizure for all American citizens living beneath the poverty level. Mean and Nasty were too ambitious. The American right was mostly looking for someone clean-cut who might rant and rave when the occasion demanded but who for the most part only existed as a smokescreen—dramatic but gaseous—for U.S. policy, which was, for the most part, as far as the rich were concerned, mostly fine, whose details would be fine-tuned elsewhere.

Damn it Werd, I'm having trouble finding my voice, Tinyman mumbled. Werd was electrified, radiant.