politics and poetry

by E.D. Kain on February 13, 2009

“And just as I often fret that my hopes for a right-of-center majority lie somewhere back in the wreckage of the Bush years, I think the liberaltarians ought to worry, just a little, that their moment actually arrived in the Clinton years, and that it’s already behind them – somewhere back in the vast obscurity of the political past, where the dark fields of the republic roll on under the night.”

~Ross Douthat

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1 Joseph February 14, 2009 at 6:20 am

Indeed, and I believe that he’s right. Clinton was it (what were the so-called “New Democrats” but liberals who’d gone back to a more classical liberalism?). Scott’s post above is dead on about the stimulus bill killing any goodwill libertarians might have had for the Dems as currently constituted.

2 Joseph February 14, 2009 at 6:23 am

Damn it, I meant Mark’s. That’s what I get for trying to read a bunch of posts at once in different tabs (and not following most of you guys on your old sites til you started this one.)

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