Re: The Partisan Mind

Steve Sailer replies to Douthat's article:

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http://isteve.blogspot.com/2010/11/ross-douthat-writes-in-nyt-imagine-for.html

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Okay, but what happens when elites of both parties are in favor of a bad 
idea? To return to air security, President Bush campaigned in 2000 against 
ethnic profiling of Arabs and Muslims by airport security and Al Gore 
immediately said "Me, too!" Bush's Transportation Department had been 
running a big program in 2001 to crack down on profiling of passengers who 
look like Arab terrorists at the time that 19 Arab terrorists got on their 
flights on 9/11. (See my 9/11/2001 article for UPI, "Bush had called for 
laxer airport security.") Did the Democrats rush to denounce Bush for 
making it easier for Mohammed Atta to board? Did Republicans turn on Bush?

No, what happens is largely that the issue disappears down the old memory 
hole.

Similarly, how about Bush's push for more zero down payment mortgages in 
the name of fighting racist redlining?

I've largely devoted my career to raising unwelcome questions about 
bipartisan elite consensuses. It's not a wise career choice.

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