Our Divided Political Heart (51 page)

225
“the achievement of the national purpose”:
Herbert Croly, quoted in McClay,
The Masterless
, 160.

225
“Great Community”:
McClay,
The Masterless
, 167–70, 179, 280.

225
“invaded and partially disintegrated the small communities”:
John Dewey, quoted in McClay,
The Masterless
, 167.

225
“a perception of common interest, a high degree”:
McClay,
The Masterless
, 167–68.

227
“The world must be made safe for democracy”:
Woodrow Wilson, “Making the World Safe for Democracy,” 2 April 1917,
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4943
.

227
“of a steady diet of “:
H. L. Mencken,
On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), 33.

227
“Tired to death of intellectual charlatanry”:
Ibid., 34.

227
“not heroics but healing”:
Warren G. Harding, “Back to Normal” speech,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/warrenharding
.

227
“He should have added: not action but alliteration”:
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.,
The Cycles of American History
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1999), 32.

228
“After all, the chief business of the American people”:
Calvin Coolidge, “The Press Under a Free Government,” 1925,
http://www.calvin-coolidge.org/html/the_business_of_america_is_bus.html
.

228
“The chief ideal of the American people is idealism”:
Ibid.

228
“Large and aggressive components”:
Arthur S. Link, “What Happened to the Progressive Movement in the 1920s?”
American Historical Review
64, no. 4 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959), 850.

228
“reversals and failures”:
Ibid.

228
“various progressive coalitions controlled Congress”:
Ibid.

229
“He is certainly a wonder”:
Franklin D. Roosevelt,
http://www.hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/Hooverstory/gallery02/index.html
.

229
“the greatest spending Administration”:
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address in Sioux City, Iowa. 1932,
http://publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu/faculty-research/new-deal/roosevelt-speeches/fr092932.htm
.

229
“piled bureau on bureau”:
Ibid.

229
“above all, try
something
”:
Franklin D. Roosevelt, address at Oglethorpe University,
http://newdeal.feri.org/speeches/1932d.htm
.

230
“Franklin D. Roosevelt directed the campaign”:
Barton Bernstein, “The New Deal: The Conservative Achievements of Liberal Reform,” in Barton Bernstein, ed.,
Towards a New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History
(New York: Vintage, 1969), 267.

230
“anti-monopolists . . . envisioned a frontal assault”:
Alan Brinkley,
The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995), 5.

230
“advocates of centralized economic planning”:
Ibid., 162.

230
“the vaguely corporatist concept of business ‘associationalism’”:
Ibid., 5.

230
“cartelistic arrangements within major industries”:
Ibid., 7.

231
“When liberals spoke now of government’s responsibility”:
Ibid.

231
“controlling or punishing ‘plutocrats’ and ‘economic royalists’”:
Ibid.

231
“providing a healthy environment in which the corporate world”:
Ibid.

231
“In the end . . . it was not as easy as many liberals”:
Ibid., 271.

231
“economic royalists”:
Ibid.

231
“money-changers have fled from their high seats”:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address.

233
“threatened to push him in a direction far more radical”:
William Leuchtenburg,
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932–1940
(New York: Harper and Row, 1963), 177.

234
we can, as Harold Meyerson argued:
Harold Meyerson, “The Fallacy of Post-Industrial Prosperity,”
Washington Post
, 4 September 2011.

235
“achieved a more just society by recognizing groups”:
Leuchtenburg,
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
, 347.

235
“Governments can err, presidents do make mistakes”:
Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Rendezvous with Destiny,” speech before the 1936 Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia,
http://www.austincc.edu/lpatrick/his2341/fdr36acceptancespeech.htm
.

235
“We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws”:
Franklin D. Roosevelt, nomination address, 2 July 1932, reprinted in
The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt
(New York: Random House, 1938), 1:647.

235
“Two more glaring misstatements of the truth could hardly have been packed into so little space”:
Boston Transcript
, quoted in Leuchtenburg,
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
, 344 n. 53.

236
“Hardheaded, ‘anti-utopian,’ the New Dealers nonetheless”:
Leuchtenburg,
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
, 345.

236
“with its model town of Norris”:
Ibid.

236
“because it represented the ‘middle way’ of happy accommodation”:
Ibid.

236
“The sharp contraction in income inequality”:
Carola Frydman and Raven Molloy, “Pay Cuts for the Boss: Executive Compensation in the 1940s,” Working Paper 17303, National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2011,
http://www.nber.org/papers/w17303.pdf
.

236
“the closest thing to a real social revolution”:
Geoffrey Perret,
Days of Sadness, Years of Triumph: The American People, 1939–1945
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), 1:10.

237
“barriers to social and economic equality”:
Ibid., 1:11.

237
“access to higher education became genuinely democratic”:
Ibid.

237
“was not seen as composed of
us
and
them
”:
Robert Reich,
The Resurgent Liberal: And Other Unfashionable Prophecies
(New York: Crown, 1989), see 278–89 for this and Reich’s broader argument about contemporary liberalism.

237
“The goals of reviving the economy and winning the war”:
Ibid., 333.

241
“Every man has a right to his own property”:
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Commonwealth Club speech, San Francisco, 1932,
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrcommonwealth.htm
.

241
“The same man who tells you that he does not want to see the government interfere”:
Ibid.

241
“We know that individual liberty and individual happiness”:
Ibid.

245
“I’ll work every day”:
Rick Perry, “Presidential Announcement Remarks,” RedState Gathering 2011, Charleston, South Carolina, 13 August 2011,
http://www.rickperry.org/news/text-gov-rick-perry-presidential-announcement-remarks
.

245
“Corporations are people, my friend”:
Mitt Romney, remarks at Iowa State Fair, 11 August 2011,
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Romneya
.

246
“Corporations are
not
people” . . . “Due to recent budget cuts, the light”:
Ezra Klein, “The Wonkiest Signs from Occupy Wall Street,” Ezra Klein’s Wonk-blog,
Washington Post
, 17 October 2011.

246
“Ultimately, inevitably, the route to real change has to run through politics”:
Hendrik Hertzberg, “Occupational Hazards,”
New Yorker
, 7 November 2011.

251
“a time for choosing”:
Ronald Reagan, “A Time for Choosing,” 27 October 1964,
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/reference/timechoosing.html
.

252
“Telling Americans to improve democracy by sinking comfortably”:
Robert H. Wiebe,
Self-Rule: A Cultural History of American Democracy
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 264.

254
“the largest disparity between younger and older voters”:
Pew Social and Demographic Trends, “Millennials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change,”
24 February 2010,
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2010/02/24/millennials-confident-connected-open-to-change
.

254
“after decades of low voter participation by the young”:
Ibid.

254
“Government should do more to solve problems”:
Ibid.

255
“When something is run by government”:
Ibid.

255
“being a good parent”:
Ibid.

255
“when politics goes well, we can know a good in common”:
Michael J. Sandel,
Liberalism and the Limits of Justice
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), 183.

256
“Government is the enemy”:
Bill Cohen, quoted in E. J. Dionne Jr., “Week in Politics: Oil Spill, Crist, Immigration,” National Public Radio, 30 April 2010.

258
“When my brother John and I were growing up”:
Caroline Kennedy, “A President Like My Father,”
New York Times
, 27 January 2008.

258
“The mood . . . was strangely blended from ambition and idealism”:
Godfrey Hodgson,
The Gentleman from New York: Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Biography
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000), 73.

259
world of Bill Bishop’s Big Sort:
Bill Bishop,
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
(New York: Mariner Books, 2009).

259
“their willingness to sacrifice individual interests for the common good”:
Michael Sandel, “Reply to Critics,” in Anita L. Allen and Milton C. Regan, eds.,
Debating Democracy’s Discontent: Essays on American Politics, Law, and Public Philosophy
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 325.

259
“those people”:
Bishop.
The Big Sort
, 40.

260
Adele Stan, a thoughtful left-of-center journalist:
Adele Stan, “Dismiss the Tea Parties at Your Peril—They’re a Force to Be Reckoned With,” AlterNet, May 4, 2010,
http://www.alternet.org/news/146707/dismiss_the_tea_parties_at_your_peril_–_they%27re_a_force_to_be_reckoned_with/?page=1
. Also, interview with author.

262
“The end is redemption and reconciliation”:
Martin Luther King Jr., originally printed in
Christian Century
, 1957; excerpts available at
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/kingweb/about_king/encyclopedia/nonviolent.resist.html
.

262
“to speed up that day when all of God’s children”:
Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream” speech, 28 August 1963.

263
“Egalitarians of a more radical stripe initially took a dim view”:
Jonathan Rauch, “Not Whether but How: Gay Marriage and the Revival of Burkean Conservatism,”
South Texas Law Review
, Winter 2009; also at
http://www.jonathanrauch.com/jrauch_articles/gay-marriage-9-the-conservative-way
.

263
“Note how different these two streams are”:
Ibid.

265
“the very idea of the perfect world in which all good things are realized”:
Isaiah Berlin,
The Power of Ideas
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998), 23.

E. J. Dionne Jr. is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a columnist for the
Washington Post
, and University Professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at Georgetown University. He appears weekly on NPR and regularly on MSNBC and NBC’s
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. His twice-weekly op-ed column is now syndicated in 140 newspapers. His writing has been published in the
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Why Americans Hate Politics
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