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2011-01-15

[W]e live in a fallen world. The saintly don’t survive in politics

'Twas ever thus

Digby had a link to an excerpt from Rick Perlstein's Nixonland. These thought insights from that work caught my eye:


The New Politics reformers had fantasized a pure politics, a politics of unyielding principle—an antipolitics. But in the real world, politics without equivocation or compromise is impossible.

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[W]e live in a fallen world. The saintly don’t survive in politics

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