BROOKS BABBLES ABOUT THE 80S

(From LexisNexis)

David Brooks, one of the resident conservative columnists at the NY Times, recently repeated a half-wit view of history:

HEADLINE: The Era of What's Next

BYLINE: By DAVID BROOKS
October 26, 2006 Thursday
Late Edition - Final

Between 1980 and 2006, conservatism was dominant. The big accomplishments were conservative accomplishments -- the defeat of communism

The defeat of communism was a bi-partisan effort, starting with Harry Truman. Wingnuts typically claim that Raygun defeated the USSR but as someone else put it so very well, Raygun had as much to do with the fall of the USSR as Nixon had to do with putting a man on the moon. In both cases, they were at the end of a very long chain of events.