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In a sense, the Massachusetts political scene is on the wagon. Dry moderates, unwilling to over-indulge in their power are replacing red nosed liberals who specialize in patronage. But these changes are having their consequences. Not only are politicians like Frank Wolfe allowed to speak out, but we are...
Americans have drawn back toward the emotional and political center. The primaries came in a burst of excitement--and vanished in bathos. The anger drained from the process, despite the exertions of Pat Buchanan. With no passion, Americans faced an election contested by two relative moderates, neither of whose victories...
The U.S. too is pledged to a one-China policy, but Beijing has come to suspect that Washington is backing away from it. When the U.S. granted Lee Teng-hui a visa last year for a private visit to his alma mater, Cornell University, Beijing was irate. Hard-liners and...
What that means for traditional Republicans is that the Buchanan cohort is large and desirable but maybe also impossible to accommodate. The issues--and the answers--that excite them are the very ones most likely to drive away moderates. The response from some quarters of the party has been to...
The difference isn't background: Clinton and Dole both come from small-town, lower-middle-class Middle America. Buchanan, an accountant's son from the sleepy, segregated Washington of the 1940s, falls roughly into the same range as the other two. It isn't ideology either. Two of the three...