At the Brandenburg Gate

The anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall got me thinking about the fact that Ronald Reagan left office in 1989.  I voted for him twice, but today's 20-something citizens don't remember living in a United States with an actual President.  Perhaps they remember Papa Bush as a grandfatherly but largely irrelevant face on TV; they certainly remember Bill Clinton, the charming rogue with a seedy past and the morals of a stoat; and they grew to adulthood being told by every organ of media that Mr. Bush was pretty much a dumb version of Hitler.  And so they elected an incompetent hard-left organizer.  Good luck with that.

In the interest of reminding our children what it was like for there to be a President of the United States: