I’m with Jonah on this. I heard part
of the Phillips interview on Diane Rehm today, and I thought I was listening
to a well-heeled conspiracy nut on the old Art Bell show. He kept going on
about how the Bushes, including the current president, are a bunch of
bluebloods who have nothing in common with the common man. It brought to
mine something my mom said to me once, about G.W. Bush: “I feel like he
could walk in and sit down to have a cup of coffee with us, and he’d be
right at home.” That’s the kind of thing my folks, who are rural
working-class Southerners, used to say about Reagan. Back then, as a liberal
high school and college student, I sneered at their ignorance. But I was the
one who was missing something big. So is Kevin Phillips.