Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.
“Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?”
“My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.”