I meant to say very much not a historian of the US or US politics. I trust you on the USSR and national security stuff, but you just don't know this stuff.

The prop won mostly because people were squeezed by taxes tied to rising property taxes, but pretending Reagan wasn't the center of the conservative movement in the late 1970s is just plain wrong.

You are very much not a historian. Reagan remained incredibly popular in CA. He beat Ford in the primary there. And, he was closely associated with the anti-tax movement. He gave Ford a run for the nomination because he was the emerging power in the GOP. Ford was seen as too moderate.

Fair point in general, but civil rights sorted out the parties. The GOP steadily lost moderates and liberals, and the Dems lost the traditional southern politicians. On civil rights and sadly now on civil liberties, there is a morality play at work. It's why I suspect you're no longer a Republican.

I get the point, but the author doesn't understand his own terms. Maybe reading a little Lewis Mumford might help. The pen did change how people wrote, more so the typewriter. The telegraph, telephone, copier machine, radio, TV all profoundly changed society in similar way. Gutenberg Bible anyone?

I would have gone with, "and the facial hair is unsettling"

Same in Massachusetts. They said they would go to Florida, but not so much: www.boston.com/news/local-n...