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Newspaper Article
Conservative hopefuls likely to self-destruct
1994
Overview
Bill Clinton's best hope for the future may be the plight of his enemies. The parade of Republican candidates trudging north toward New Hampshire does not inspire much excitement. Phil Gramm and Bob Dole will not melt much snow with their oratory. Those in the wings _ Dick Cheney, Bill Bennett, the new perennial Pat Buchanan _ will be more diverting but even less weighty. The old conservatives did things such as back M.E. Bradford (an anti-Lincoln Civil War historian) and the Rockford Institute. The new conservatives shot down Bradford's nomination to the National Endowment to the Humanities, and backed Richard Neuhaus' condemnation of the Rockford Institute as anti-Semitic. What an exercise in nostalgia [Paul Gottfried] presents us with. The factionalism, the keeping of little ledgers of ancient grudge, the doctrinal hairsplitting, which characterized the left when it was coming apart after the collapse of the popular front in the 1940s, is here re-enacted on the right. It is a mirror reversal, as in some feverish ideological dream _ not an edifying spectacle, perhaps, but what a comfort to Bill Clinton.
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Las Vegas Review - Journal
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