And so do the alumni. Over at Inforos:
It seems hard to believe now, when President Trump feels he needs to give an address at Mount Rushmore in defense of American values and the American way of life, but twenty years ago this summer, the presidential election was a dead heat between two bland centrists. The Republican Party had vanquished Pat Buchanan’s rightwing populist insurrection of the 1990’s. The Clinton/Gore Administration had worked hard to defeat the old Liberals who lost five of six presidential elections to the GOP. Texas governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore were the candidates of bland centrism and the ‘radical middle’. This was an election of policy positions on prescription drugs, tax rates, and campaign finance reform. The great issues of the age had been settled. America was in the post historical world. That November, Bush defeated Gore by 547 votes in Florida, showing just how little space lay between the two men. No one imagined that history would come roaring back less than a year later on September 11th. The first decade of the 21st century was made by George W. Bush...
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