The Day After Tomorrow

David Brooks, New York TimesEvery political movement has a story. The surging Republican Party has a story, too. It is a story of virtue betrayed and innocence threatened.Through most of its history, the narrative begins, the United States was a limited government nation, with restrained central power and an independent citizenry. But over the years, forces have arisen that seek to change America’s essential nature. These forces would replace America’s traditional free enterprise system with a European-style cradle-to-grave social democracy.These statist forces are more powerful than ever in the age...

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