We are all supposed to eschew Agnewism — what’s Agnewism (in this context)? Portraying an elite, Ivy-educated, canapé-scarfing America against an ordinary, hard-working, faithful America. But still: Don’t you think that antipathy to Sarah Palin — especially in the media — has to do with the fact that she’s “not quite U,” as they once said in Britain? That she’s North Idaho College, a fisherman, a hunter — and that she has the audacity to think she’s okay?

Not to mention her opposition to abortion, which is absolutely beyond the pale. And she is a wife and mother — and, weirdly, seems proud of it. And she has this small child, whom so many would have aborted in a heartbeat (so to speak).

Anyway . . . I sense the ghost of Spiro, hovering around. And who wrote much of his stuff? You’re right: a young, pugnacious PJB (Patrick J. Buchanan).

Who would have thought that PJB would finish his glorious career attacking Winston Churchill?