Fascinoma

Frank Rich has it precisely right in today's Times, Ronald Reagan ain't riding to the rescue of the GOP's clown posse.

But Saint Ronnie is a fine emblem for fascism in America. Fascism seeks to resurrect a wholly specious, imagined past: a time of chastity, simplicity, contentment, harmony, heterosexual vigor, when men were men, the poor were happy, a dollar (or Deutschmark) really bought something et cetera. And Ron is the perfect, pretend President of that Imaginary Past. He was really a traitorous, race-baiting, senilescent boob; but a pitchman, like Arthur Godfrey, and so, useful to movement conservatives. He could play a President on TV!