In Which I Am Amused (Part Deux)
Yousefzadeh’s Law Concerning the Popularity of Republican
Presidents: After a Republican President leaves office, the more
time passes, the greater the chances that the chattering classes of
Washington will gain a Strange New Respect for said former
Republican President, while lamenting that the current
Republican Party cannot be like the former Republican President.
This will be the case notwithstanding the fact that during the
Presidency of said Republican President, the chattering classes
could not resist trashing him (and eventually, her).
Exhibit A in support of Yousefzadeh’s Law Concerning the
Popularity of Republican Presidents:
E.J. Dionne, who now finds it possible to celebrate the foreign
policy realism of George Bush the Elder, even though while George
Bush the Elder was in office, he was trashed and pilloried by the
likes of . . . E.J. Dionne.
The mainstream media punditocracy may be inconsistent. But never
let it be said that it is not predictable.
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