VLVL "happy ending"?

[Keith McMullen]

 >>>  My focus remains
on Vineland's scathing portrayal of the neofascist
Nixon-Reagan-Bush police state that jbor ignores in
the rush to embrace the Nixon-Reagan-Bush critique of
the 60s counterculture movement. <<<

jbor isn't rushing to embrace the Nixon-Reagan-Bush critique
of the 60s. He's pointing out Pynchon's. The two are not the
same critique, as Pynchon is also a critic of Nixon-Reagan-Bush.