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The Buckleyization of America

Marc Vander Maas


Posted by Marc Vander Maas
on Thursday, February 12, 2009

William F. Buckley, 1956:

[I'd] sooner be governed by the first two thousand people in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand members of the faculty of Harvard University.

Rassmussen poll results, 2009:

Forty-four percent (44%) voters also think a group of people selected at random from the phone book would do a better job addressing the nation’s problems than the current Congress, but 37% disagree. Twenty percent (20%) are undecided.

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