The Myth of the Middle 2
Ed at Gin and Tacos argues that our notion that the best course of action lies somewhere in the political middle of the road is a nosebag of hooey.
Afterthought:
That might have been true before the Republican Party, under Richard Nixon’s loathsome Southern Strategy, devolved from the party of Ev Dirksen and Nelson Rockefeller to the party of Tom Cotton and Louie Gohmert. (And if you don’t know who Ev Dirksen and Nelson Rockefeller were, you will find a wealth of information, some of it accurate, on the inner tubes.)
July 17, 2020 at 8:27 pm
AS for Everett Dirksen, R-Il, remember he did his damnedest to keep the Civil Rights Act from becoming law. He was from “Downstate Illinois,” Pekin, which in the 50’s and 60’s might as well have been “Upstate Mississippi.”
July 17, 2020 at 9:47 pm
Yes, he did, but he eventually relented.
More to the point, whatever his faults, he had integrity, something today’s Republican Party does not.
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