Ruling Class icon George Bush #1 said, 'Reagan is an extreme conservative. All the dummies and blockheads are with him.'

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7/16/10, "America's Ruling Class-and the perils of Revolution," by Angelo Codevilla, from American Spectator

"Former Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev tells us that in 1987 then vice president George H. W. Bush distanced himself from his own administration by telling him, "Reagan is a conservative, an extreme conservative. All the dummies and blockheads are with him..." This is all about a class of Americans distinguishing itself from its inferiors....

In sum, our ruling class does not like the rest of America. Most of all does it dislike that so many Americans think America is substantially different from the rest of the world and like it that way. For our ruling class, however, America is a work in progress, just like the rest the world, and they are the engineers."...(end of subhead, "Meddling and Apologies")


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7/26/10, Codevilla piece transcribed on 1 page so you don't have to wade through pages on Am. Spectator


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