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The New York Times Magazine - Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush
Returning to my favorite quote of the Bush administration, from October 2004, later attributed to Karl Rove.
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never forget (but really, i’ve never forgotten it)
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Who could forget those bad old days? This is a truly memorable statement of hubris. Like most truly sinister lies, it contains a grain of truth, in that there’s certainly an important distinction to be made between those who initiate and manifest realities of their own volition and energy, and those who only analyze and theorize in retrospect, but Rove veers wildly from such a distinction into totally fantastical terrain which doesn’t even recognize basic empirical reality as a starting point for action, apparently as a sort of end-zone dance and chest-thumping exercise about the Bush era’s right-wing empire. I’m sure Rove is having fun this week answering phone calls from conservative millionaire donors to his Super PAC demanding a reality-based explanation for why his facts on the ground for this election turned out to be wispy smoke in the air.
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