In Praise of Victor Davis Hanson

As someone who finds the Cult of Reagan a depressing, even nauseating spectacle, I doff my hat to Victor Davis Hanson for this paragraph published at National Review Online:

I hope the present primary race does not keep descending into monotonous boasts of who is the more Reaganesque of the candidates, in which we do the gutsy and often very human Reagan a real disservice by forgetting the things that he sometimes thought he had to do to survive or to govern — or the things he was sometimes just plain naive or wrong about. George Bush’s Alito and Roberts appointments were far more conservative than either Reagan’s O’Connor or Kennedy. In a matter of a few years, Reagan’s disastrous 1986 blanket amnesty for illegal aliens changed the very fabric of the American southwest and was the source of much of the present financial and legal mess. Well apart from Iran-Contra, he was lax in going after the bombers of the Marine barracks in Lebanon and had utopian spasms about nuclear disarmament.