In its mourning for Reagan, America got it right

A fine comment by English conservative Charles Moore about the week of Reagan:

We think of Americans as sentimental and schmaltzy, and sometimes they are. But what strikes me about the mourning for Reagan is the opposite. Although he was personally loved in a way which is rare among US presidents, the grieving for him has not been of the Diana/Eva Peron variety, with its quasi-religiosity teetering on the edge of neurosis. It has not even been of the John F. Kennedy variety, in which a love of glamour paid so large a part. Rather, it has been truly republican.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at June 13, 2004 01:57 AM | Send
    
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This paragraph recalls the opening of Peter Hitchens’s ‘The Abolition of Britain’, in which he contrasted the behavio(u)r at Diana’s memorials with that at Churchill’s.

Posted by: Reg Cæsar on June 13, 2004 3:06 PM
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