Peter Kaplan on Ronald Reagan, 1980, The New Republic

[Michael Bailey]

How can it be considered selfish to vote against your own interests? But
anyway...

That link somebody (Fiona?) sent to the Wikipedia article about the tall
actor had a nifty link in the external links section in which I finally
learned who Herb Sorrell's people were...
http://www.latimesmagazine.com/2012/02/left-in-the-past.html
This article paints Reagan as a good trade unionist standing up against a
Stalinist coalition, using persuasion to hold off the commissars...nifty
counterpoint to the received wisdom.  The tall actor dude was on the other
side, pitching for the painters' union, which supposedly brought longshore
people in to break arms... although Horst-lookalike-guy was also an OSS guy
in WWII, proto-CIA, wheels within wheels, both sides working for command
and control hierarchies, the Evacuation proceeds, but it's all theater, or
movies as the case may stand.  Reagan did inspire affection but I will
never understand why.  Even Tip O'Neill liked him.
Is Pynchon as tall as Horst?
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