Treating Decline

Instapundit links to a Conrad Black article at the New York Sun websiite, and highlights this brilliant quote:

Mr. Trump may have aggravated some of the current nastiness, but his chief offense has been breaking ranks with the bipartisan coalition that produced the only period of absolute and relative decline in American history.

(Metaphor alert) Decline made it possible for Donald Trump to convince America the dyspeptic body politic needed not a soothing antacid tablet but a disruptive enema. Swamp draining, indeed.