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How Conservatives Learned to Quit Worrying and Love the Imperial Presidency
Gene Healy tells the tale.
|7.9.07 @ 10:46AM|#
It would be nice if posts contained snippets of relevant material from the page being linked...internet filter at work blocks many links...
|7.9.07 @ 10:48AM|#
Nice piece. If it hadn't briefly mentioned the 22nd Amendment,
I'd say it ignored the 800 pound gorilla in the middle of the
room--Franklin D. Roosevelt.
We can argue all day about what the word "conservative" means now,
but I remember when it meant trying to undo the damage Franklin D.
Roosevelt inflicted on our nation. ...and opposing communism.
Sure, conservatives were happy to bring culture warriors onto the
bandwagon--whether it was people railing against "dirty hippies"
during Vietnam or "latte swilling liberals" during Iraq. ...but
back in the Reagan/Bush the Greater Era, I always thought of the
culture war folks as fellow travelers at most.
|7.9.07 @ 10:59AM|#
Jefferson: "In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of
confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of
the constitution."
'nuf said
Scooby|7.9.07 @ 11:28AM|#
Jefferson was a Democrat, and therefore un-American. Probably a terrorist, too (a sympathizer, in any case).
ktc2|7.9.07 @ 11:34AM|#
Not to mention that ole TJ was, by his own writings, a NON
CHRISTIAN! GASP!
He respected Jesus as a philosopher but rejected any claims of his
divinity.
The Wine Commonsewer®|7.9.07 @ 11:44AM|#
Scoob, true that Jeff was a Dem but that isn't the same party we know and love today.
|7.9.07 @ 11:52AM|#
"Jefferson was a Democrat, and therefore un-American.
Probably a terrorist, too (a sympathizer, in any case).
I remember hearing people complain (during and before Reagan's
first election) that there was more of a difference between the
liberal and conservative wings of the major parties than there was
between the parties themselves.
Yes, there used to be conservative Democrats and liberal
Republicans, more of the former than the latter. Prior to Reagan,
the South voted as a block, and they always voted for the
Democrats. Much of the culture war conservativism we see in the
Republican party today is, I believe, a function of bringing what
were historically conservative Democrats into the coalition.
...and if I had to point to the historical roots of their
anti-Presidential authority impulses, I'd point, certainly, to
desegregation and I'd probably point to the Civil War and
reconstruction as well.
SIV|7.9.07 @ 12:03PM|#
Prior to Reagan, the South voted as a block, and they always
voted for the Democrats.
Not in Presidential politics.
|7.9.07 @ 12:06PM|#
"This is nothing less than the totalitarian philosophy that the
end justifies the means…. If ever there was a philosophy of
government totally at war with that of the Founding Fathers, it is
this one."
Fo shizzle.
|7.9.07 @ 12:08PM|#
Prior to Reagan, the South voted as a block, and they always
voted for the Democrats.
Prior to 1948 they always voted Democrat. Between '48 and '72 they
voted for the "Dixiecrat" candidate if there was one, and the deep
south even voted for Goldwater in '64. After '72, almost always
Republican except for when Carter (a southerner) ran.
|7.9.07 @ 1:11PM|#
Scooby
Jefferson was a Democrat, and therefore un-American. Probably a
terrorist, too (a sympathizer, in any case).
You may be on to something. Remember that TJ owned a
Qur'an!!!
The Wine Commonsewer®|7.9.07 @ 2:32PM|#
Just for the record, I got the sarcasm.
Me too. I even smiled.
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