Andrew Sullivan runs a series of quotes from Liberals in the 1980’s (Strobe Talbott, John Kerry, Anthony Lewis, et al) on Ronald Reagan. You would think they would be embarrased, but they’re not. I love this from Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: "A few years from now, I believe, Reaganism will seem a weird and improbable memory, a strange interlude of national hallucination, rather as the McCarthyism of the early 1950s and the youth rebellion of the late 1960s appear to us today." - Arthur "Always Wrong" Schlesinger, Washington Post, May 1, 1988.
Last night, PBS ran the Reagan "American Experience". It was interesting in that it refreshed my recollection about how liberal elites, the Left and many soft-headed Europeans hated and feared Reagan. It is similar to what Bush is experiencing right now. Reagan was called an idiot, a captive of the religious right, a cowboy and a warmonger.
I heard Meet the Press last Sunday and that plagiarist Doris Kearns Goodwin stateds that nobody back then really hated Reagan. I almost barfed when I heard that bit of revisionism.