Young was born in Toronto — a fact you can expect Fox News to report at least 132 times in the coming days — but has spent most of the last four decades living in the United States. From Buffalo Springfield through Crosby, Stills, Nash Young through Crazy Horse and beyond, his music has consistently embodied Middle America’s mythic ideals (truth, justice, tolerance, etc.).
In the ’80s, he was an outspoken supporter of Bush’s hero, Ronald Reagan; 10 days after the Sept. 11 attacks of 2001, Young unleashed an impassioned cover of John Lennon’s on a heal-the-masses television special; he’s been a longtime performer at , and sits on the organization’s board of directors. Put another way, Young’s past teems with the same down-home sentimentality that Bush pledged to uphold before his election, but — as by a strong majority of U.
S. citizens — has since forsaken. Young is nowhere near the first musician to criticize his current president.
Young was born in Toronto — a fact you can expect Fox News to report at least 132 times in the coming days — but has spent most of the last four decades living in the United States.
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