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In LBJ's shadow (Bush's "Big Government Conservatism")
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Nov 19, 2004 01:44pm |
| Category | Opinion |
| News Date | Nov 09, 2004 12:00am |
| Description | If recent elections banished Democrats to the political wilderness, the victory by President George W. Bush foreshadows a new hybrid conservatism for the GOP. The British magazine The Economist calls it "Big Government Conservatism," as opposed to Big Government Liberalism.
It is a distinction that traditional conservatives consider an oxymoron and suggests that the economic philosophy of the respective parties differs only in regard to whose constituents are promised the largest share of federal pork. Although the new hybrid philosophy includes a double dose of so-called cultural values, the economic policy of President Bush has more in common with the administration of fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson than with traditional conservatives.
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