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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: In a Republican world… (Daily Kos)

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Robert Reich:

> What kind of society, exactly, do modern Republicans want? [...] They say
they want a smaller government but that can’t be it. Most seek a larger
national defense and more muscular homeland security. Almost all want to widen
the government’s powers of search and surveillance inside the United States –
eradicating possible terrorists, expunging undocumented immigrants, “securing”
the nation’s borders. They want stiffer criminal sentences, including broader
application of the death penalty. Many also want government to intrude on the
most intimate aspects of private life.

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> They call themselves conservatives but that’s not it, either. They don’t
want to conserve what we now have. They’d rather take the country backwards –
before the 1960s and 1970s, and the Environmental Protection Act, Medicare,
and Medicaid; before the New Deal, and its provision for Social Security,
unemployment insurance, the forty-hour workweek, and official recognition of
trade unions; even before the Progressive Era, and the first national income
tax, antitrust laws, and Federal Reserve.

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> They’re not conservatives. They’re regressives. And the America they seek is
the one we had in the Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century.

Neil Steinberg:

> The national debate …

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