Columnist John Leo finds the cultural and campus wars of the 1960's still visible in the Judge Alito Senate hearing this last week. He writes in part:
"Consider the narrative line for Samuel Alito's life. It's perfect. He comes from a white ethnic community that valued family, tradition, patriotism and the Democratic Party. By the time he arrived at Princeton, an outsider in a high-status student body where Catholics were still rare, the cultural revolution was under way and the most strident of the '60s people were acting like swine ("very privileged people behaving irresponsibly," as he politely put it). He found their values alien.
As columnist David Brooks wrote last week in The New York Times: "The liberals had 'Question Authority' bumper stickers; the ethnics had been taught in school to respect authority. ... Alito wanted to learn; the richer liberals wanted to strike. He wanted to join ROTC; the liberal Princetonians expelled it from campus."
The values gap was opening wide, and Alito was on track to leave the Democratic Party. Or more accurately, the party was about to leave him and millions of future "Reagan Democrats." In the summer after Alito graduated, the McGovern revolution transformed the Democratic Party...."
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