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How did today’s GOP become the party of Jerry Falwell?
“Before Falwell, if liberals wanted to increase the minimum wage by one dollar and conservatives did not want to increase it at all, they could compromise and raise the minimum wage by fifty cents. Before Falwell, the American public’s ambivalence about abortion could find expression in the Hyde Amendment, which does not prohibit abortion but denies federal funds for the procedure. After Falwell, such compromises were seen not as part of the art of governance, but as a betrayal of first principles. After Falwell, conservatives could not entertain differences of opinion on many issues without being accused of political heresy.”
-Michael Sean Winters, “How the Ghost of Jerry Falwell Conquered the Republican Party”
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“Kim Jong-Il’s economic legacy, in one chart.”
“Each year the dollar value of South Korea’s GDP expansion equals the entire North Korean economy.”
-Peter Beck of the Atlantic Council
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