""The world's foremost authority on widgets” or “the world's foremost authority on anything."" Source: If Not Us, Who? William Rusher, National...
Expertise and Authority
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William Rusher
Crusading Against the New Deal
"[He] prosecuted the New Deal as though it were a criminal, piling up irresistible mountains of logic, lancing it with swift strokes of sarcastic...
Confession and Betrayal
"A break with Communism, and an offer to “tell all,” is fundamentally inconsistent with a determination to avoid naming names..." Source: Special...
Media Bias Perceptions
"A conviction that the media in general are biased against liberalism is simply not to be found in liberalism's general set of beliefs as it is in...
Pain of Changing Belief
"A genuine change of mind on a subject important to us … is often—perhaps usually—accompanied by pain. Do not, then, expect to see real progress on...
Party System Satire
"A moribund heap of chronic losers, serving a highly selective set of economic interests and little else … if the Republican party didn't exist the...
Corrosion of Political Morality
"A steady diet of political infighting tends to coarsen, and ultimately to cheapen, most participants. They approach politics as reasonably...
Political Honesty Defined
"An honest politician is one who, when bought, stays bought." Source: If Not Us, Who? William Rusher, National Review, and the Conservative Movement...
Partisan Cycles and Spending
"... now is the Democrats' time, and they can be forgiven if they intend to enjoy it ...the downturn began before they took over, and can continue...
Government Response to Downturns
"... The auto industry is a critical part of the nation's economy. But ... by no means the only critical part. If we undertake to guarantee its...
Bailouts and Economic Pragmatism
"... the recent worldwide economic downturn will, predictably, generate a demand that Washington “do something,” and Washington will respond with a...
Goldwater vs. Kennedy and Johnson
"… Goldwater's popularity as a conservative candidate stemmed in very substantial part from the sharp contrast between his personal and political...