"Republican governors are more lunatic than they used……" — Rick Perlstein
"Republican governors are more lunatic than they used to be - as attested by all the ones so eager to turn down free federal money to qualify more of their poor citizens for Medicaid under Obamacare. Meanwhile, some states have taken the money only to hoard it."
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39 Quotes by Rick Perlstein
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Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting…
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No historical analogies are exactly precise.
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All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology…
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Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his…
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Bill de Blasio was swept to the New York mayoralty on the promise of getting Gracie Mansion out from under…
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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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Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.
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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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