The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

NYMag and others have referred to Sally reading Decline and Fall to her grandfather in Mad Men as heavy-handed foreshadowing. I guess I don't buy this so much; I think it's foreshadowing the rise of a conservative movement that interprets the social change to come as the decline and fall of the American empire. Decline and fall doesn't seem like the kind of value judgment Weiner and his writers would make. It's the judgment that Harry Crane will make--ie the one that Reagan, Schlafly, et al made.