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...scorns. But he does so < in the manner of a polished TV performer: he is immaculately attired in a dark suit, handsome, poised, physically commanding, capable of speaking with cool irony as well as passionate rhetoric. His constituency, built on a network of local churches, follows him with a fervor that is the envy of more conventional politicians. He provokes so much opposition from his party's mainstream that only a miracle could win him the 1988 presidential nomination, yet the candidates who have a realistic chance at that prize treat him gingerly, with a mixture of respect and fear...
Robertson takes pains these days to come across as an unthreatening candidate to those who do not share his religious fervor. Yet a fund-raising letter referring to the success his delegate candidates were having in Michigan began with the exultation "The Christians have won! . . . What a breakthrough for the Kingdom!" In addition, he belongs to the charismatic strand of Evangelicalism that discomfits even some fellow Evangelicals. In the TV studio, Robertson has prayed openly for healings and miracles, calling on the power of God to cure maladies in his audience as diverse as cancer and a slipped disk...
...reap the South's black Democrats the way Robertson may reap its religious-right Republicans.) At a minimum, Robertson could present the eventual Republican nominee with the same kind of dilemma that Jackson posed for Walter Mondale in 1984: how to capitalize at the polls on the fervor of his legions without frightening away even larger numbers of more moderate voters...
Despite the strength of the British Brigade, the colonists have the fervor to keep winning. Authenticity is pursued to the point of obsession, and anyone wearing polyester would be laughed off the battlefield. Shirts are handmade of ; linen, often by the soldiers or their wives. Buckled colonial shoes for officers are available from an outfit in Valley Forge, Pa., and flintlock muskets (made in Japan, though this point is not stressed) can be had for $285. Among the strictest reconstructionists are the 1,000 or so members of the Brigade of the American Revolution, a group founded...
Americans have always wanted it both ways. From the first tentative settlements in the New World, a tension has existed between the pursuit of individual liberty and the quest for Puritan righteousness, between Benjamin Franklin's open road of individualism and Jonathan Edwards' Great Awakening of moral fervor. The temper of the times shifts from one pole to the other, and along with it the role of the state. Government intrudes; government retreats; the state meddles with morality, then washes its hands and withdraws. The Gilded Age gave way to the muscular governmental incursions of the Age of Reform...