Prescient quote for the day

While Mrs. Reagan darted angry looks about the hall (displeased at the press?), the star of Death Valley Days was staring intently at the speaker on the platform. Thus an actor rpepares, I thought, and I suspected even then that Reagan would some day find himself up there on the platform: as the age of television progresses, the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception.

Gore Vidal
New York Review of Books; September 12, 1968

That was 52-years ago, and Vidal certainly got it right. After all, America is today governed by a reality-television star — meaning, wholly divorced from reality — and his weaselly, ass-kissing sycophants.

But notice this: In the judgment that the Reagans were political forerunners, there is a dark implicit judgment — that Americans were growing decadent, trivial-minded, empty-headed, that cheap theater would overtake competence. Right again.

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