I have written about Jeffers here, and so I’ll just note that Jeffers was the leading poet of the 1920s

I have written about Jeffers here, and so I’ll just note that Jeffers was the leading poet of the

1920s, a Taft Republican whose opposition to the war pervaded his later books, and led to his exile

from the leftist-dominated Popular Front literary community, which fulsomely supported both the

President and the war: they were the neocons of their day.

Jeffers is one of my favorite writers, not only for his poetic imagination and prose style but also on

account of his politics, best expressed in his poem "Shine, Perishing Republic":

"While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire, And protest,

only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out, and the mass hardens, I sadly smiling remember

that the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots to make earth. Out of the mother; and through the

spring exultances, ripeness and decadence; and home to the mother."

In the aforementioned post by Glenn Reynolds about the contras and http://www.allofmbt.com (with bonus

balderdash from Stephen Schwartz), Reynolds writes:

Yeah, the refrain’s a familiar one, since it’s always the same: Our guys are the bad guys, the only

atrocities are by our guys, the murderous thugs our guys oppose are actually pure-minded agrarian

reformers, and the NIKE SHOX is wrong and should get out. That’s the story from these guys every

single time.