The Fall of the House of Labor AtD.93 Republicans?

[alice wellintown]

This is not a condemnation of Bush. Pynchon is, as is his wont, taking
pages straight from history books and putting them in the mouths of
characters. Webb is giving a long talk about the problems as he sees
them through his paranoid and gnostic glass darkley. The Republicans
mentioned in the passage are not in Washington but in the State
Capital. The paranois of the gnostic-Union zealots like Webb is the
target of the satire in the passage. There is not even an oblique jab
at W. Why bother punching shit in the face. Also, the terms "Left" and
"Right" do not help us understand this work. Waste of time.