Opportunity knocks: it may look grim now, but the Republicans' hubris and incompetence will ultimately prove their undoing.(The Road Ahead)
American Prospect, The, December, 2004 by Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.
ALAN BRINKLEY'S ILLUMINATING PIECE IS RIGHT IN CONCLUDING that the "only real option" for Democrats is to convert Republicans (and, presumably, independent voters) into Democrats. He sees years of hard labor before this can be accomplished. I am more optimistic. I think that the lethal Republican combination of hubris and incompetence will expedite matters, but only if the Democrats are prepared to step into the breach.
First, hubris. George Bush the Younger, perhaps in conscious or unconscious reaction to his father, does not dismiss "the vision thing." He ...
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