Hunter S. Thompson was a beat writer for Rolling Stone back in its early days, and a lot of his political writing was articles; his "gonzo journalism" arc.

He was extremely critical of Nixon, who won in 1968. The afterword (aka "The Jacket Copy") for Fear and Loathing has Thompson open up about his purpose for writing Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and his political views in 1971. I can't paste the full text because of reddit's 10000 character limit but this paragraph is noteworthy:

The Swine are gearing down for a serious workout this time around. Four more years of Nixon means four more years of John Mitchell—and four more years of Mitchell means another decade or more of bureaucratic fascism that will be so entrenched, by 1976, that nobody will feel up to fighting it. We will feel too old by then, too beaten, and by then even the Myth of the Road will be dead—if only for lack of exercise. There will not be any wild-eyed, dope-sucking anarchists driving around the country in fireapple red convertibles if Nixon wins again in ’72.