The Last WASP President
3rd December 2018
What goes unstated, however, is the subtext of that yearning. All the florid remembrances are packed with fondness for a bygone institution known as the Establishment, hardened in the cold of New England boarding schools, acculturated by the late-night rituals of Skull and Bones, sent off to the world with a sense of noblesse oblige. For more than a century, this Establishment resided at the top of the American caste system. Now it is gone, and apparently people wish it weren’t.
But Franklin Foer is here to tell you how wrong, WRONG they are.
There are so many ‘dog-whistles’ in this piece, you’d think that they’d have their own park.
Steve Sailer unpacks it here: Atlantic: Nostalgia for GHW Bush is anti-Semitic