HEARTS AND MINDS

"But the ideology of Reaganism made the protection of privilege a battle cry, burying earlier and more overtly racist calls to defend privilege beneath a sunny optimism that insisted that unleashing the creative power of the accomplished and well-to-do was the sine qua non for the moral redemption of America.

And that ideology has become so deeply ingrained, so widely (if unconsciously) accepted across much of the political spectrum, that it's now in our very marrow as a nation."