"Part of the fantasy certain pro-reform Republicans like……" — Rick Perlstein
"Part of the fantasy certain pro-reform Republicans like to broadcast about Hispanics, family-oriented, churchgoing traditionalists, is that they are somehow natural conservatives, just waiting for the Republicans to slough off the skin of bigotry before they can embrace Reaganism en masse just like every other ordinary God-fearing American."
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39 Quotes by Rick Perlstein
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Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the…
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Let there be a special place in Hell for pundits who make predictions.
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Fight injustice, that our children might be blessed.
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