You know those Navy SEALs, they weren't Democrats and Republicans. They were just doing what was best for America. Wouldn't that be a great country if all of you Americans were just like that? You followed orders, you marched in step and you followed my agenda.
From Jonah Goldberg
I would also say Barack Obama has spent much, much, much, much more money than the Republicans.
We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.
There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist.
But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so.
Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.
The GOP needs to figure out a way to become more appealing to new constituencies.
Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.
If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.
The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.
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