[left that other site]

Is beck back on the sauce?

Or was he permanently brain damaged?

[Pelham]

“Is beck back on the sauce?”

Probably not. He’s just getting drunk on a kind of moral preening that goes all the way back to New England’s jealousy over Jamestown and Virginia dominating early American history.

This jealousy played a large role in leading to the Civil War. A good history of it is found in Thomas Fleming’s “A Disease In The Public Mind”.

Beck isn’t any kind of scholar himself. What he’s doing here is repeating material that he’s being fed by some writers he’s relied on the past. I can think of a couple who are his most likely sources.