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The Republican strategy of building a new worker-based coalition around supply-side policies is thus a high-risk proposition--the administration gambled not only that its "voodoo economics" would work, but also that the public would fail to see its essential duplicity. Hence, the rhetorical excesses: Reagonomics is a...
But Democrats would do well to remember that Ronald Reagan triumphed because he seemed to respond to these feelings of powerlessness, by pointing an accusatory finger at "big government" and promising to return the economy to "the people". This promise has now been exposed as a populistic cover for a...
Since World War II, banners bearing variations of the hammer and sickle have been unfurled in 15 countries. The victory of Marxists in nations as diverse and far-flung as the Seychelles, South Yemen, Ethiopia, Angola and Nicaragua led Richard Nixon to proclaim that World War III has already begun...
Marx's emphasis on class conflict provided Lenin with an easy category for identifying his enemies. Also, Marxism was posited on the ideas of a single absolute truth, the predestined victory of the cause, and the fallibility and expendability of the individual. Therefore it lent itself to the suppression...
The same goes for official speculation about nuclear war in general. U.S. leaders should simply shut up on the subject-or at least make much clearer that they are determined to avoid nuclear war rather than create the impression that they are pondering how to fight it. It was a...