Sunday, November 9, 2008

Crash Course in American Politics

Donkeys did populism of the 1890s, the antibusiness reformism of the 1930s and the civil rights crusade of the 1960s, while the elephants did abolitionism in the 1850s, anti-Communism in the 1950s, antitax revolts in the 1970s and 1980s and the evangelical conservatism of the 1990s and 2000s.

Source: Sam Tanenhaus, NYT

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