[PGR88]

I remember my great-uncle telling me he used to regularly see VP John Garner (Roosevelt’s VP in the 1930’s) out for lunch with his secretary at a tavern in downtown DC. No one thought it was a big deal.

Probably a sign-post of when we began to change from a limited-government republic to an Empire with a ruling class.

[gusty]

Exactly. No other Western democracy allows its political leaders to indulge in the trappings of monarchy as we have. What Kessler sees as a negative, I see as a positive, some semblance of our republican past. In our lurch to authoritarianism, Kessler sees the common sense treatment of a celebrity, Bradley Cooper, as some sort of national security threat. The problem is not lax security for our political elites, but the praetorian guard we have allowed to surround them.