In keeping with my working theory that Barack Obama will go down in presidential history as a kind of Franklin D. Roosevelt II, I find these lines of plutocratic incoherence and phony bitterness, in the Weekly Standard, from the Koch brothers:
Charles: "He’s a dedicated egalitarian. I’m not saying he’s a Marxist, but he’s internalized some Marxist models...."
David: "He’s the most radical president we’ve ever had as a nation and has done more damage to the free enterprise system and long-term prosperity than any president we’ve ever had."
FDR was savaged from the far right as a Marxist slayer of capitalist virtues, as a destroyer of free enterprise, as a radical, unAmerican bogeyman opposed to long-term prosperity, while being simultaneously savaged by the far left as a traitor to egalitarian virtues, as the unforgivable savior of free enterprise, as a conventional American pol opposed to real and long-term prosperity.
In brief, when as president you've alienated the extremes to the point that both are floundering in opposite and parallel and emphatically unhinged universes, you've probably done something of truly historic merit.