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...paralysis is even more dangerous than it was to Ford and Carter. The Republicans swept into power in 1980 by promising a massive revitalization of the economy that would primarily benefit blue-collar workers. Convening, appropriately, in Detroit itself, they proclaimed a "new populism" based on supply-side economics. GOP party chairman Bill Brock promised "jobs, jobs, jobs"; the President himself informed the Carpenter's Union several months ago of an imminent "American renaissance that will astound the world; a new era of good feeling in America, a time when jobs will be plentiful and the richness of the country...
...Democrats tried a few years ago, getting all their celebrities up on the tube, and flashing "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party" on the screen, and bitching and moaning about the two-party system and the fatcats in the GOP. Truly embarassing, and to boot unsuccessful. But the MD people know which way the wind is blowing. "We don't accept any money from the federal government," Lewis says. "It's all up to you. We don't want to be subjugated." And what was our president talking about...
Eisenhower and the GOP sweep of 1952 cost Sullivan his seat in the legislature, but not his place in government. He went to work first for the city's Water Department, and then took over as commissioner of the city's veterans' services program, which, in the mid-1950s, was a very big job. "We had a half-million dollar budget, big money in those days." Sullivan says. There was one unsuccessful race for the state seat in 1956, and a grandly successful campaign for his brother Edward, who was elected clerk of courts, a post he still holds. Edward...
Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government, called it an "absolute horror. "His colleague, Harvey C. Mansfield '53, said it demonstrated "the good sense of the American people. "There were debates about the meaning of the GOP sweep, the future of the Democratic party and the role of the far right. As the Ivy League analysis of the Reagan victory last November dragged on into the winter, a number of Harvard faculty members--most prominently, Richard E. Pipes, Baird Professor of History who is now the senior Soviet-Eastern Europe specialist on the National Security Council--journeyed to Washington to participate...
...will be forced to renounce Terry Dolan, Weicker says he is "proud to be a number one on that guy's hit list--wouldn't have it any other way." He predicts that even conservative candidates will disown Dolan--as several did in 1980--in an effort to maintain GOP unity. Raising his voice with characteristic emotion, Weicker has his own view of who will be the hunted in 1982: "It looks to me like Terry Dolan is the target, not moderate Republicans...