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April 13, 2012 10:20 AM
“Permissive On Social Issues and At Ease with Big Government, Yet Ever Faithful to the Gods of Business and Finance”
Louis Menand writes:
Once, when winters were cold and the world seemed large, creatures roamed the earth who were permissive on social issues and at ease with big government, yet remained ever faithful to the gods of business and finance. Their principles were abstract but broad-minded: tolerance, free trade, and a belief in something called the American Way. Their personal tastes were conventional. They were surprisingly allergic to indecorum, and disinclined to question the status quo. But they were not small-town or provincial; they were Wall Streeters, not Main Streeters. Their vista was international.
Such creatures still exist. One of them is named Barack Obama. Actually, the above description describes much of the modern Democratic Party. “Permissive on social issues and at ease with big government, yet ever faithful to the gods of business and finance,” indeed.
Menand laments the decline of the Republican version of such politicians … but, really, that wouldn’t make so much sense given that the Democratic Party is so hospitable to them. The Republicans might as well have their own party, no?
[Cross-posted at The Monkey Cage]
HMDK on April 13, 2012 11:32 PM:
And that's the thing exactly.
It describes an extinct type of Republican. Well, they're not extinct. Now they're the Democratic party. What's frightening is that there is little actual Democratic party left of the sort that existed alongside those Republicans. All we have now is rightwing everything.
John on April 14, 2012 12:35 PM:
It cannot be a healthy situation to have a two party system where one party roughly approximates the views of the Eisenhower administration and the other party is a toxic combination of the politics of Joseph McCarthy, Barry Goldwater, and George Wallace, with some utterly insane fundamentalist protestant garbage thrown in for good measure.
The fact that the actual people who love the idea of some sort of Rockefeller Republican third party or dream of mavericky Republicans taking up that mantle don't even realize that the Democrats represent exactly what they want doesn't help, either.
Rueben Scott on April 14, 2012 5:55 PM:
Obama is 1950s Republican on steroids.Much of what he has accomplished would have pleased Dirkson or Michaels.I cannot but believe that the current crop of Republicans have lost their sense of history.
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