"A sad masquerade"

The New York Times has reviewed the Tocquevillian project that's being written by Frenchman Bernard Henri Lévy.   It is interesting to note what he had to say about our very own Tom Daschle:

Visiting the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., Mr. Lévy ponders the willful deceptions of an invented American past. In the stubborn autonomy of the Amish, he sees something of American exceptionalism. He watches with ironic dismay as Tom Daschle, then a senator, and his family dance with a Lakota Indian tribe in South Dakota, and sees a sad masquerade.