You forgot to add Peggy Noonan to that list of fakes.
Yes, Peggy is such a disappointment. Had a bit of a crush on her when she was a 30something Reagan speechwriter. She seemed like a fun kind of young woman who believed in RR and his vision for this country. Somewhere along the line, though, Peggy’s brain disintegrated and her act became tiresome. She hasn’t had anything interesting to say in at least 25 years. When I bother to read her in the WSJ, I scan the first few paragraphs, and it’s always her same old boring cliches.