Kesher Talk

Saturday, June 05, 2004

Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004. I was determinedly apolitical during the Reagan decade. Or rather, my politics were the closest they ever came to crunchy anarchic anti-globalism (although - always a straddler of subcultures - I still hung out with my yuppie Libertarian Party buds). So in my world, Reagan was the anti-Christ, much as Bush is today to many of the people I hung out with then. Although I vaguely appreciated that he said the right things about the dissolution of the Soviet Empire, I was still an embattled liberal and Reagan was still the evil villain of the AIDS epidemic. But mostly I avoided political discussion and taking positions, maybe because I knew if I did I would become consumed. As I am now.

So whatever I would say about Ronald Reagan would be very distanced and vague, so I will point you to these folks:
Michele Catelano.
"Tacitus" here and here.
Arthur Chrenkoff.
Michael Totten.
Terry Teachout.
Tim Blair has more here and here.
Maroonblog - start here and scroll.

UPDATE: Meryl's views on Reagan are closest to mine.
Hitchens goes for the jugular.

UPDATE: Various Reagan conversions.