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Last year's revolt against the Clintons led by Newt Gingrich was all about the dislike, even hatred, that Talents and Lifers feel for Mandarins. Gingrich and some of his key lieutenants are failed Mandarins--recall that as a historian, Gingrich was denied tenure at a third-rank college--ho despise the Mandarin path for its air of self-satisfaction and for having been so blind to the abilities of Gingrich & Co. when young. When Gingrich rails against the corrupt "elite," he's talking about the Mandarins--and hitting a nerve. Mandarin resentment has enabled the Republican Party, whose home...
...years infuriated the "Anxious Middle;" as Dionne calls the economically and philosophically insecure middle class; once again, government seemed impotent to address the problems they cared about. So, in 1994, the same people who turned against Bush now turned against Clinton and the Democrats, in favor of Newt Gingrich's Republicans...
...Dionne, Gingrich's radical anti-government posture is an attack on the legacy of Progressivism, as established by Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. The great Progressive belief was that government should be used "to expand individual choice and protect communities, [in] an effort to improve living standards across the society...." Gingrich sees every act of government as an assault on freedom; but the lesson of the 20th century, for Dionne, is that government is crucial for preserving individual rights in ways that the market...
...Many of his ideas are not in tune with those of Newt Gingrich and many of the mainstream Republicans," DeSimone said...
After print, why not TV? Newt Gingrich taped an appearance on Murphy Brown and then posed for photos just like a real star. "I'm not going to paint or sing in the near future," Gingrich says, but he'd like to do more guest spots. Maybe a cameo on The X-Files...