Himmelfarb, Gertrude. "For the Love of Country," Commentary Magazine, May, 1997.

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“The era of big government is over,” President Clinton announced in his State of the Union address in January 1995, responding to the mandate of the people as expressed in the newly elected Republican Congress. That statement has proved to be so patently false—look only at Clinton’s proposals for educational reforms, which would enhance rather than diminish the role of government—that one may overlook how misleading it is in another respect. For “big government” is a euphemism for the current version of the “welfare state.” And it was this that the American people had rejected.

 

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