P-Hustle unmasked: The class fraud of Graham Platner

In John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces, set in early-1960s New Orleans, Ignatius J. Reilly is the ultimate self-aggrandizing dunce. Over-educated, unemployed, living rent-free off his mother, armed with a useless master’s degree and an endless supply of contempt for the modern world, he stages absurd crusades while contributing nothing. He rails against the…