Earlier this year I was privileged to hear a lecture by Dr. Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel laureate in physics, who spoke about his experience as a member of several science & technology commissions that advised our presidents from Nixon to Clinton. After the lecture a member of the audience asked him how the conservatives in the current administration compared with conservatives from Nixon and Reagan eras. Dr. Gell-Mann’s answer could have been heard without benefit of a microphone. “These people are not conservatives. They are in dyed-in-the-wool ‘foaming-at-the-mouth’ radicals.”
