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Monday, July 07, 2003
More on the Republican Attack
Machine. Media Log would never be any more self-referential than
absolutely necessary. But Alan
Wolfe's excellent piece in
the Ideas section of yesterday's Globe reads like the flip
side of my recent piece on the down-and-dirty tactics of the modern
Republican Party and its allies in the media ("The
GOP Attack Machine").
It's heartening that a mainstream,
measured liberal such as Wolfe has concluded that the Republicans --
starting with George W. Bush -- have unilaterally shattered the
governing consensus necessary to make politics work.
Wolfe seems to think that by
sticking to their principles, the Democrats will ensure their own
defeat in 2004 -- but that may enable them to build for the future.
I'm not so sure that his short-term pessimism is warranted -- just
check out the headlines from Iraq and from the economic front on any
given day.
But he's right about this: politics
is a nasty game, and the Republicans are playing it a lot nastier
than the Democrats right now.
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
