Michelle Malkin never seems to tire of invoking “the house that Ronald Reagan built.” And this little nostalgic quirk of hers amuses me to no end. I mean, unless my ciphering fails me, Malkin was only 11 years old when The Gipper took office in 1981, and she was only 19 when his second term expired. So she was just starting college when Reagan left office. And this tells me that her memories of the Reagan years have to be hazy at best. In all likelihood, her memories of the Reagan years are strictly second hand.
You can’t convince me that a teenage girl in junior and senior high school was terribly intrigued by presidential politics. Indeed, when Malkin headed off to college, she went not with a passion for political science, but with a passion for concert piano. After she realized that she sucked at playing the piano, she changed her major to English (again, not to political science).
So what’s up with this Reagan-worship thing of hers? Is it because other older conservative journalists and bloggers revere Reagan and she does it to fit in? Is it because she’s carved out her niche as a paid columnist in the conservative realm, and she writes what she thinks her audience wants to hear?
It’s a mystery to me.
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