It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review boards, or sex education programs - when they presume that a reform is an inevitable comcomitant of progress. It is then they are most likely to establish their reforms by to-down bureaucratic means. A blindsiding backlash often ensues.
Rick PerlsteinIt is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review boards, or sex education programs - when they presume that a reform is an inevitable comcomitant of progress. It is then they are most likely to establish their reforms by top-down bureaucratic means. A blindsiding backlash often ensues.
Rick PerlsteinPolls could be self-fulfilling prophecies, shaping reality as much as they described it.
Rick PerlsteinHe (Nixon) needed someone with him so he could be alone.
Rick PerlsteinTag: companionship introverts
Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments.
Rick PerlsteinTag: forgiveness resentment
Being hated by the right people was no impediment to success. The unpolished were everywhere the majority.
Rick PerlsteinTag: resentment
I think the people from Mississippi ought to come to Chicago to learn how to hate." Martin Luther King, Jr. after the violent reception he received in Chicago in 1966.
Rick PerlsteinTag: hate southerners northerners
This trip was not about running for president. This trip was preparing to BE president.
Rick PerlsteinTag: governance campaigning
In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.
Rick PerlsteinTag: communication persuasion
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