[lowbuck]

I will be 68 this fall and VDH is right. I remember the Democrats of my youth. . . Humphrey, McGovern and such. I did not agree with all their positions but I considered them honorable men capable of civil discourse and compromise.

Since Clinton and the introduction of “smash mouth” politics things have just gone downhill. The ‘party of the little man’ of my youth (Dems) is now the party of privilege and a grab bag of special interests (racial bias choir; homosexuals and all their brethren and so on). Meanwhile, especially through the outreach of President Trump, it appears that the Pubs are now the party of the downtrodden and those left out.

Sadly both parties have lose sense of fiscal reality but that is another story.

[Hieronymus]

I think you misspelled “Reagan,” though Trump is a very good man for a politician.