The war within the Republican Party was not principally an ideological war, though. It was a class war. A patrician like George H.W. Bush was educated to accept that advanced art and literature could be offensive. Being offensive was its social role, harmless as long as the art was safely ensconced in a museum. If you didn’t like the art, you didn’t go to the museum.
~ Louis Menand via The New Yorker

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