>Beg to differ, Reagan was mean, but he knew how to look friendly. Some of
>you may recall his response after James Rector was shot during the
>People's Park uprising in Berkeley. "If it takes a bloodbath ..."
I'm not talking about his actual policies and politics, but the psychology of his appeal. He radiated optimism and sunniness - like Clinton, but unlike W. W radiates a punitive cruelty. The place feels different now from the way it felt then.
Doug