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Besides, Democrats are failures at presidential politics. So conclude three new books about the 1988 campaign. The authors, veteran political observers all, agree that Bush won because he and his handlers more ably manipulated the symbols of patriotism and the emotions of voters than did their Democratic rivals. Bush pretended...
Bush continues to promote a constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget. The President also pleads for the line-item veto, which would permit him to excise specific parts of large-appropriations bills. The proposed amendment is an illusion: it would have to allow for unforeseen contingencies such as war...
Is this still a country that can lead? A country that can give others its ideals of freedom and justice, its formula for creating wealth, its generosity? Was the American Century always an illusion? And, if it was real, is it over?
But that is not wholly new. The notion that in the past the U.S. was somehow a united community is a nostalgic illusion. The founders warned of the dangers of "faction." Even on the frontier, the pioneers fought not just the Indians but one another. Interests fought other interests. Regions...
ESSAY: "The American Century" was no illusion. What's more, a second one could -- and should -- be on the way.