The Great Disestablishment

Reacting to a Michael Barone article in the Washington Examiner, Roger Kimball writes the following assessment/prediction for American Greatness:

Barone’s calm, dispassionate description of alternatives suggests two things. One, that the dreaded “normalization” of Donald Trump is proceeding apace, just as it did with Ronald Reagan, who also had been dismissed as an evil, warmongering moron before he was declared a statesman of rare genius. Two, that the vaunted policy establishment in Washington and the media, to say nothing of its support groups in academia and the world of celebrity, are just about to suffer a disestablishment that will rival in vividness, if not in carnage, what Henry VIII visited upon the monasteries of Tudor England.

As a former functionary in one of those “academic support groups,” I assure you its disestablishment is long overdue. Both of these articles are good reads.