Dubya's legacy

This Historian takes apart Dubya's legacy. I am mostly looking to the future, but this line is a doozy (Gibbon wrote the definitive rise and fall of Roman Empire).

Not even Gibbon could supply a story as fatefully bizarre as the ultimate consummation of Reagan-Bush conservatism, its last act: the most massive shift of financial power from the private to the public sector since the New Deal. Rather like the Pope deciding that all along he really wanted a barmitzvah.

LOL