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Whirlwinds From the West |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / THE PRESIDENCY |
| Author: Richard Jensen |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 3,049 Words, 19,918 Characters |
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Alf Landon, who hoorayed for Teddy Roosevelt in 1912 and encouraged Ronald Reagan in 1987, saw many changes in his hundred years, but none so radical as the transmutation of our politics. William McKinley or Woodrow Wilson would have been at home in the campaigns of Harry Truman or John Kennedy. They all understood state parties and local organizations. Each had built a national coalition that included key men from every state and every district. Their supporters were rewarded with patronage and prestige. As master politicians they appreciated the loyalties of the core electorate and the vacillations of the independents. They knew how to run a national campaign and how to raise the big money required. Advertising meant billboards and newspaper ads rather than TV spots, but the principle of...
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...ulated, decontrolled, and hyperindividualistic. The question is whether our politics--our communal decision making--can overcome the destabilizing negatives of pocketbook voting, superficial candidates, hyperbolic media with a distracting focus on "ethics," and weakened ties between politics and the social structure. No nation ever has, but none-except the "nation" of California--has ever tried.
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