After a year in office, Obama’s pragmatic leadership takes a Leviathan-like posture. ++ Supposedly outweighing the political balance towards government between corrosive liberal action and conservative dismantling practices, the electorate is sinking the president’s style. ++ Pragmatic big government confronts the American true “basic sense of equilibrium.” ++ Americans enjoy his
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The UK Tories will be back in power within 15 months, it seems almost certain. ++ In hand with this, Thatcherism is being revisited 30 years after it began. ++ But too stark a comparison between now and then is foolish. ++ Thatcher was a product of her union-power, high-taxation time; Cameron, on the other hand, fails to reflect the center-left movement taking hold which rightly chastises the
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