[alloysteel]

Christopher Hitchens is what he has always been, a left-of-center iconoclast. From where he sat, the "Former Occupant of the Oval Office, 1993-2001" and Ronaldus Magnus had similar profiles. And this troubled Hitchens, because he knew there was a distinct difference, but he could not see what it was. The failure lay in Hitchens, not in Reagan. So what was his interpretation? That, somehow, Reagan was "stupid". And we all know that was not the case.

[skeeter]

As good an analysis as any. I guess it is gratifying (in an odd way) that Hitchen's criticism of Reagan always lacked the substance that his criticism of Clinton, & more recently the anti-war left, has had.