Maybe Bush’s “radicalism” is not accidental

How different is the Bush presidency, as described (not unfairly) by Jonathan Rauch, from the presidency one would have expected from John McCain? Not very different, I submit. Recall, too, the (not unfair) perception that, had McCain been nominated, he would have trounced Al Gore.

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