The comedian sees himself as a one-man truth squad fighting the woke so Democrats can prevail in Middle America. He’s not.
popular culture
Posted inApril 1995
Paging Ward Cleaver
Perhaps the essential difference between the conservativism of the eighties and the conservativism of the nineties is that the former was mainly economic and upbeat and the latter seems to be mainly cultural and gloomy. The books that best convey the mood of Reagan conservativism are exuberant briefs for tax-cutting, like The Way the World Works and Wealth and Poverty. Now […]
