Barrage of hypocritical adoration for Nancy Reagan goes on. Barf if you must.

Conservative disinformer and Reagan panegyrist Peggy Noonan has been all over the tube like a bad fungus, singing praises to the great man and his now departed wife.

Conservative disinformer and Reagan panegyrist par excellence Peggy Noonan has been all over the tube like a bad fungus, cloyingly singing the praises to the great man and his now departed wife.

“We explained at the time of Ronald Reagan’s death in 2004 that the tributes being paid to him were “in essence, a celebration of the services he rendered to the rich. The overriding goal of his administration was the removal of all legal restraints on the accumulation of personal wealth.”—Dave Walsh

The ruling class never loses a beat when it comes to reinforcing any of its successful impostures, and the selling of Ronald Reagan as a great president (of which all this disgusting fuss over the passing of his mediocre wife is really a continuation of) is just the latest example.

U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1981 to 1983 is emblematic of Reagan’s rotten legacy. An out and out “anti-environmentalist”, his pro-development views played an instrumental role in ending the Sagebrush Rebellion. The word “rebellion” sounds salutary in an age of putrid and self-serving policymaking in favor of the powerful, and systematically deleterious to nature, but, folks, this was a rightwing rebellion, clamoring for “the right” to put more public lands at the mercy of private interests:

[1]^[2] Notably, supporters of this movement wanted more state and local control over these lands, if not outright transfer of them to state and local authorities and/or privatization. As much of the land in question is sagebrush steppe, supporters adopted the name Sagebrush Rebellion. The sentiment survives into the 21st century with pressure from some individual citizens, politicians, and organized groups especially with respect to livestock grazing, mineral extraction, and other economic development policy for these lands. (Wikipedia)

probation, and ordered to pay a fine of $5,000 and perform 500 hours of community service.^[25]In a 2001 interview, Watt applauded the energy policy of the Bush administration, stating that its preference of oil drilling and coal mining to conservation was just what he recommended in the early 1980s.^[26](SOURCE: James G Watt, Wikipedia)

In a recent (as usual excellent) analysis on this entire revolting spectacle, Dave Walsh had this to say, and we could not concur with him more:

The genuflection of every American politician before the supposed greatness of the Reagans is an element of the political vetting process, and each figure who aspires to the highest offices knows this. ( The death of Nancy Reagan )