Past Grievances, Present Hype
Rick Perlstein
The . . . most crucial difference: back then, when it was Medicare, the center-left much more firmly understood the concept of the reactionary — that this small and predictable minority of obdurate Americans
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Ask a dead Afghan poppy farmer trying to scratch a subsistence existence between our global dominion and the violent rebellions it engenders what he thinks about the problem of political apathy in the first world and see what he says.
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