Nurse Sununu/Ratched at the RNC was a hit. But my little story was incomplete — and Robert S., a wonderful wise LRC reader, sent in the rest of the analogy: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s nest has always been one of my favorite films and up until this point I had failed to make any connection between the struggles of the patients to modern political movements. Yet as you point out, there it is, plain as day. The party leaders are indeed Nurse Ratched personified, and they have certainly tried to “lobotomize” the Paulian movement setting up camp in their … Continue reading A Reader Completes the RNC Story — We Are Chief!