
Jun 16, 2008
"We had a lot of success with that in 1972"

"What Nixon left behind was the very terms of our national self identity: a notion that there are two kinds of Americans. On the one side, that 'silent majority.' The 'non-shouters.' The middle-class, middle-American, suburban, exurban, and rural coalition who call themselves 'values voters', 'people of faith', 'patriots' or even simply 'Republicans' — and who feel themselves condescended to by snobby, opinion-making elites and who rage about un-Americans, anti-Christians, amoralists, aliens. On the other side are the 'liberals', the 'cosmopolitans', the 'intellectuals', the 'professionals' — 'Democrats.' Who say they see shouting in opposition to injustice as a higher form of patriotism... and both have learned to consider the other not quite American at all" — Nixonland, Rick Perlstein (Scribner)
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