The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair.
Jonah GoldbergSomeone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.
Jonah GoldbergLiberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the motives of their accusers because the fact of their guilt was undeniable. In the 1960s, over a thousand psychiatrists who'd never even met Barry Goldwater signed a petition saying the GOP candidate was too mentally unstable to be president.
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