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...Republican triumph of 1994. But was it "corrosive" in the years leading up to 1994? If any Republican said so, I never heard it. Systematic inculcation of popular hatred for "government," for "bureaucrats," for "Washington," for "Congress,'' for "elites" was an overt--and brilliantly successful--part of Speaker Newt Gingrich's Long March strategy for taking over the House. More generally, it became a reflexive part of the Republican political language. Sitting on cnn's Crossfire for six years, most of them opposite Pat Buchanan, I heard this stuff night after night, and not just from Pat. No Republican ever...
...obvious. After all, it was only three years ago that Bill Clinton became President and seers prophesied that he would build a new Democratic majority--despite the fact that he was elected with only 43% of the popular vote. And it was only 14 months ago that Newt Gingrich and his troops seized control of the U.S. Congress, promising a stable conservative majority...
...best of the new books is by Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr., one of the country's most thoughtful political journalists. They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era (Simon & Schuster, 352 pages, $24) argues that the Gingrich phase of American politics is neither conservative nor revolutionary but instead reactionary, harking back to the Big Business Republicanism of the late 19th century. Gingrich is only the latest in a line of Republicans stretching back to Barry Goldwater who have attacked government as the cause of the country's problems. Dismantling government, they promise, will improve...
...economy have been depressing middle-class wages and producing what Dionne calls the Anxious Middle--voters who are disenchanted with government but fearful of the creative destruction that is producing big winners and a lot of losers in the national economy. Dionne believes that the very technological revolution that Gingrich extols and that is roiling the American economy will hasten the day when the G.O.P.'s antigovernment mantra becomes unworkable...
...RELIEF TO SEE NEWT GINGRICH'S NAME IN THE PAPER the other day. I was beginning to think that he might have been abducted by one of those extraterrestrials he has speculated about...