"Then again, it's the whole Reagan program, isn't it — dismantle the New Deal, reverse the effects of World War II, restore fascism at home and around the world, flee into the past, can't you feel it, all the dangerous, childish stupidity — 'I don't like the way it came out, I want it to be my way.' If the President can act like that, why not Brock?"

— Vineland by Thomas Pynchon