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debatableland.com - 1/9/2009
The Limits of Reaganism
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At a recent debate, every single one of the candidates hoping to be the nest chairman of the Republican National Committee named Ronald Reagan as their favourite Republican president. In one sense this is hardly surprising, given the extent to which the Cult of Reagan - or more precisely, the ...

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openleft.com - 1/6/2009
Solving the Rootsgap
— openleft.com — Well, I suppose I had to make the announcement at some point, so here goes.  I won't be blogging at OpenLeft for some time.  I've taken a job inside the House of Representatives (more on that when I've cleared what I can say) to see how the ... (more) Solving the Rootsgap

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delong.typepad.com - 1/11/2009
Stupidest Party AliveTM
— delong.typepad.com — People who have endorsed the Republican House caucus's objections to the stimulus package: Donald Luskin, Chief Investment Officer, Trend Macrolytics LLC, Stupidest Man Alive Emeritus TM : "Government spending does not create incentives for ... (more) Stupidest Party AliveTM

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Peggy Noonan Suddenly Decides That Hero-Worshipping Presidents Is “Un-American”
firedoglake.com - 1/9/2009
Peggy Noonan Suddenly Decides That Hero-Worshipping Presidents Is “Un-American”
— firedoglake.com — How can you tell a Democrat is about to move into the White House? When Nooners writes something like this: The Founders, who were awed by the presidency and who made it a point, the early ones, to speak in their inaugural addresses of how ... (more) Peggy Noonan Suddenly Decides That Hero-Worshipping ...

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Your Conservatism Is Too Small
The Moderate Voice — ... Alex Massie has a wonderful post on how dogmatic the Republican Party has become and ties it to the history of the Conservative Party in the UK after the age of Thatcher. Reaganism helped revitalize the GOP and ushered in a conservative era in the United States. But as Massie notes, the party has become stuck in its past, unwilling to change as the nation changes, and that past has become highly fictionalized, make Reagan more doctrinare than he was in reality. ...

The Cult Of Reagan
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Massie opines: ...it is an iron truth of politics that prolonged success sows the seeds of future downfall. Revolutions run out of steam. They cannot be permanent. More damagingly still, what begins as an unorthodox and surprisingly successful approach calcifies into a stubborn orthodoxy that brooks no dissent, even as times and circumstances change. The path to power is built upon compromise and flexibility: Thatcher always knew what she wanted to do, but she was also aware, in her early years, of how limited her room for ...

Conservative Renewal: A View from the UK
The American Scene — ... Alex Massie has a characteristically interesting post on the idea that political doctrines inevitably become inflexible dogma, and that this has happened to Reagan Republicanism: ...

The Cult of Reagan
Maggie's Farm — ... Quoted from The Limits of Reaganism at Debatable Land (we need to add this site to our Anglosphere category) ...

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