For articles like this one which I found through there. I’m not the type to normally read GQ.
Even though the writer is totally historically wrong about Carter on page 6. Those long lines at the pump, unemployment, inflation? Brought to you by the folks who brought you the Vietnam War and those who set up a puppet dictator in Iran so that the auto industry could build Cadillacs that burned 10 miles to the gallon. We were paying back for the Vietnam war, when we got sucker punched in our major industrial cash cow industry of the day…the auto industry. How did Reagan solve that problem? Switch over to another puppet dictator named Saddam Hussain to get his oil, and fund Hussain’s war against the guys who overthrew the old puppet dictator. That set up the first Gulf War that killed the economy in 1992, which drove Osama Bin Laden to start Al-Qaeda and use brainwashed kids to blow themselves up by crashing planes and killing thousands of innocent bystanders, and start the Afghanistan war. Which we’re still in and still paying for, which set up the second Iraq War which has doubled the size of our debt. That was Ronald Reagan’s solution to the problems that Jimmy Carter faced. Compound the problem by about a zillion. The debt was nothing in comparison to what it is today, and that debt isn’t just going to “go away”. They freaking set up the whole economic mess we’re in today. ALL of it. And it started with Reagan.
Anyway, that bit aside, it’s one of the most believable insider views of the Bush White House I’ve ever read. For those who still think Bush was secretly a genius, read that article and it’ll change your mind. That said, it’s especially hilarious when he knocks Sarah Palin. It’s like the second stupidest kid in the class calling the stupidest kid an idiot. That said, in that moment, the second stupidest kid in the class had a sudden moment of brilliance in comparison to the smart kids turned idiots around him. Smart people can spot a smart person. Idiots can spot an idiot when smart people sometimes cannot.