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Among the many bonuses of advancing age, which include backache and balding, there is no greater horror than talking politics with your children and having them react as if you're Dan Quayle. It happens suddenly too. One day you're a cool populist hero who takes them to ball games and out for cheeseburgers, and the next day they're quoting Noam Chomsky and giving hourly updates on dwindling rain forests...
Sitting in his office near Hayden Lake, Idaho, the leader of the Aryan Nations has the grim demeanor of a man under siege. Richard Butler growls that "Jews run the government" and that "Jewish conspirators" are intent on destroying him. A portrait of Butler's hero, Adolf Hitler, hangs on the wall, and white-robed figurines of Ku Klux Klansmen decorate a shelf. He fiddles with a booklet of Nazi war art and clicks his teeth as he talks. At 82, he has failed in his goal of founding a whites-only homeland, and now he faces the prospect...
...pals smoking Cohibas." His grandson and the renegades' leader, Ditto (George Newbern), is Bull's Luke Skywalker, out to escape Grandpa's musty clutches. In the year's most cornball TV speech outside a convention, he urges his Rolex rebels to "try investing in yourself for once! [Become] the hero of your own life!" What is this, David Copper Futures...
...cunning and insinuation to get your way; your hero is F.D.R. If you chose A, you're House material at best; the least well-regarded Presidents--Grant and Harding--were modest...
...course, the Democrat who made that crack in the first paragraph will snort at the idea of George W. Bush--scion of old Wasps, Galahad of tort reform, living fat on Texas oil money and "presiding" over lethal injections--as a hero of the anti-elitist masses. But that will be the Democrat's mistake...