MY ADOPTEE: Matthew Yglesias supports my previous assertion about the ideological orientation of candidates:
"Life is complicated in this way. Ronald Reagan, in a sense, was another Barry Goldwater*. In another sense he was very different from Barry Goldwater in that Goldwater was a representative of the right wing of the Republican Party who led the GOP off an electoral cliff while Reagan came from closer to the middle of the party and was very politically successful."
*Keeping in mind that I excepted the 1964 election because it was a fluke year.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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