Schlesinger's the Proof: No Fool Like An Old Fool.

Ed Driscoll points out how the always fraudulent scholarship of Arthur Schlesinger Jr goes way back before his recent mis-statements in the Washington Post. Here is a hilarious piece dug up concerning the spurious imposter Schlesinger before his senility became dominating:
HatTip: inopinion

"after Arthur Schlesinger, just back from a trip to Moscow in 1982, said that President Reagan was delusional about the crumbling state of the Evil Empire:"
"I found more goods in the shops, more food in the markets, more cars on the street -- more of almost everything," he said, adding his contempt for "those in the U.S. who think the Soviet Union is on the verge of economic and social collapse, ready with one small push to go over the brink."

This pungent fruitcake of the left thought a stroll around Moscow's diplomatic quarter constituted proof of the economic strength of the USSR just a few years before it crumbled into the dustbin of history. Guess whose side he was on: Reagan's America or the Communist USSR?

Old Fools never die; they just write Op-Ed pieces for the NYT and WaPo.

Oh, and a Postscript: Schlesinger quotes Abe Lincoln, a Republican, but wrote The Age of Jackson, which got him a Pulitzer for Left-Wing Extremism, in this case extolling and exalting a Democrat who defied the US Supreme Court with his famous extra-constitutional remark: "SCOTUS has made its decision, now let it enforce it." Even in its infancy, even before the Civil War, the Democrats scorned the US Constitution, as the Dem Corps in the CIA and MSM do today.