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Journalism Has A Special, Hallowed Place For Stories Of Its Practitioners' Persecution.

The Revival Of The Right Is As Extraordinary As It Would Be If The Public Had Demanded Dozens Of New Nuclear Plants In The Days After The Three Mile Island Disaster; If We Had Reacted To Watergate By Making Richard Nixon A National Hero.

The Great Fear That Hung Over The Business Community In The 1970s Was Death By Regulation, And The Great Goal Of The Conservative Movement, As It Rose To Triumph In The 1980s, Was To Remove That Threat - To Keep Osha, The Epa, And The Ftc From Choking Off Entrepreneurship With Their Infernal Meddling In The Marketplace.

We Have Become A Society That Can't Self-correct, That Can't Address Its Obvious Problems, That Can't Pull Out Of Its Nosedive. And So To Our List Of Disasters Let Us Add This Fourth Entry: We Have Entered An Age Of Folly That - For All Our Facebooking And The Twittling Tweedle-dee-tweets Of The Twitterati - We Can't Wake Up From.

Maybe That First, Gigantic Deficit The Reaganites Piled Up Was An Accident, Just A Combination Of Deluded 'supply Side' Tax Cuts And A Huge Bag Of Good Stuff For The Pentagon. But Pretty Quickly Conservatives Discovered That Deficits, When Done Correctly, Did Something Really Cool: Deficits Defunded The Left.