At The New Yorker, Philip Gourevitch remembers the convention 20 years ago which nominated George H.W. Bush for reelection. Gourevitch writes, “Bush, the last of his breed to head a Presidential ticket, was a patrician product of the pre-Reaganite Republican establishment: business-friendly, foreign-policy-minded, more secular than not, anti-Communist but otherwise minimally ideological.” According to Gourevitch, this all changed with Pat Buchanan, his likeminded colleagues, and the increased focus on social issues. Gouretvitch writes, “[T]he culture war that Buchanan trumpeted is no longer an insurgent cause but a permanent condition of the Republican Party, and, increasingly, it is being fought within the Party.”