Well, it was an hour well spent. This is a fellow that had a few surprises up his sleeve. That it was the Carter administration that started Reagan’s arm’s buildup is quite a novel notion. I can’t say that I’ve heard that charge before. On the other hand, the revelations about the GHW Bush administration’s dislike for ANYTHING Reagan was not so surprising.
Thanks for the post.
Codevilla wrote a couple of articles for The American Spectator four or five years ago, during the time when the Tea Party was forming, that crystallized our thoughts for a lot of us, and explained clearly why we felt such anger and frustration with the current political status quo in our nation. He pointed out that our country was being steered by elitists from both parties who did not have our interests at heart. These elitists had more in common with each other than they did with any of us outside the “club”.
Today, some of his insights have become second nature to conservatives, and it is hard to remember that there was a time when a lot of us did not yet fully understand the battle we were facing, and the nature of our enemies at home.