Many of the Founding Fathers believed they were putting together a nation that would be ruled by dour, Harvard-educated, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. These leaders would be voted into office by lesser white males, grateful for the chance to choose between the Cabots and the Lodges. I suppose the end of that line of smirking, burned-out alcoholics was George W. Bush, our fifth-worst President. And he pretended to be a bowlegged cowboy.
Today Harvard is the sort of American meritocracy that might admit a talented Hindu from Moosejaw if her parents make $500,000 a year. A mentally-ill sociopath whose grandfather was a pimp and whose father supported the KKK is President. WASPs have been replaced by the Snopes of Faulkner, cunning pussy-grabbers lacking any pretense of class, education or rationality.
The WASPs, who figured in so many sociological conversations when I was young, are history.
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