The New Politics reformers had fantasized a pure politics, a politics of unyielding principle—an antipolitics. But in the real world, politics without equivocation or compromise is impossible.
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[W]e live in a fallen world. The saintly don’t survive in politics
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
'Twas ever thus
Digby had a link to an excerpt from Rick Perlstein's Nixonland. These thought insights from that work caught my eye:
