“I will work every day to make Washington, DC as inconsquential in your life as I can.... America is not broken. Washington D.C. is broken.”
-- Rick Perry
This is what Republicans would call Reaganesque, and it would be sighed in admiration. These are the musical notes of the siren song that can cast Americans adrift in dreams of an imagined nineteenth-century golden age of rugged individualism.
John Podhoretz mocks:
-- Rick Perry
This is what Republicans would call Reaganesque, and it would be sighed in admiration. These are the musical notes of the siren song that can cast Americans adrift in dreams of an imagined nineteenth-century golden age of rugged individualism.
John Podhoretz mocks:
Most people outside Texas know very little about Perry, but given his standing as a kind of amalgam of George W. Bush and Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee, he may soon occupy an unprecedented position in the imagination of liberals and the Left—perhaps the most frightening specter of anti-liberalism since Ronald Reagan precisely because he is electable. The conservative boogeyman is back.I am afaid he may be right about that. He is a Sarah Palin with enough veneer of credibility to carry it off. Our best hope may be that Americans don't want another Texas yahoo so soon after Dubya, but I don't feel especially confident about that.