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The Bush Administration, and particularly Bush's chief political strategist and Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove, have been expert in both galvanizing and mobilizing the fears and resentments of people. A good part of their politics consists of being against others who are defined in stereotypical terms. These others don't, in actual reality, exist. The so-called Democratic elitists, for example, are a stereotype who they can hate. Anyone who watches Fox News or listens to Rush Limbaugh knows that this hatred of the other is at the core of their politics.

Sidney Blumenthal's Popular Quotes

When most people see the word "radical," they think that it must refer to something left wing. Some people also may think of it as referring to far r…

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We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the mi…

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It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of…

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The incubator for terrorism, after the Middle East, is Europe, partly because of proximity, partly because of the existence of large Muslim communiti…

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If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.

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The George W. Bush universe of threats is a constantly expanding universe as he moves to politically higher ground, escaping from failure after failu…

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It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of t…

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The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

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As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.

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