Rush is right about the Establishment. It didn’t disappear in 1964. It had to remain back stage while Nixon was in office, but then when he
appointed Jerry Ford and the Ford appointed Rockefeller. It was right there again. Reagan then won despite them.although he had to take George H.W. Bush as a kind of Jerry Ford substitute. Good ole JERRY never forgave Reagan for displacing him, although we didn’t know that until Ford died that he was so bitter. Reagan of course drove Carter insane. But the surest sign of the continuing power of the Establishment is that Kissinger is still taken seriously. Which is why George Bush’s foreign policy was so odd. The mess ins Iraq put the “Realists” back in charge, so that when he said things such as “Islamic Fascism, he was forced to get back in line. Apart from his occasional rebellion, Bush was an Establishmentarian, with his domestic policies.
Nixon was the bigger RINO than Ford or Rockerfeller. He gave us wage and price controls, 55 MPH national speed limit and the EPA.