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Grandma eating Alpo? This presidency will grow increasingly sordid. Will it bring a challenge?

Peggy Noonan on Friday:

“In the Old America there were a lot of bad parents ... But in the old America you knew it wasn't so bad, because the culture could bring the kids up ... Grown-ups now know you can't send the kids out to play in the culture, because the culture will leave them distorted and disturbed.”

Always in politics we expect the future to be like the immediate past, but it never is. That is generational wishing. Kennedy will be back, Reagan will be back, Clinton (Bush, Britney?) will be back because we think of them as immortals. When they ask England a hundred years hence when her drooling peasantry is rooting for potatoes why did Gordon Brown sell England’s gold in 1999, the answer will be because he, like at least half of his generation, thought Bill Clinton was a god.

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