[lbo-talk] letter to the editor

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Sep 27 12:09:02 PDT 2007


On Sep 27, 2007, at 2:36 PM, Robert Wrubel wrote:


> Reagan was even stupider than Bush,
> verbally, and he accomplished far more for the right
> than Bush has.

I'm not so sure of that. Reagan's diaries aren't exactly Minima Moralia, but what I've seen aren't moronic either. He really impressed people like Walter Wriston, who were skeptical at first.


> Bush is merely finishing off the job
> Reagan started.

Depends on what you mean by finish. You could also read Bush as the decadence of the conservative movement, now almost 30 years into its political dominance.

Doug



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