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Minority Report
Hitchens, Christopher | November 14, 1994 issue

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The right hates U.S. President Bill Clinton because it fears him. And it obviously cannot fear him as a radical reformer. It can fear him, however, as a man who threatens to purloin conservative clothes. The fact is, there is something hypocritical about everything Clinton does, and something profoundly insincere in his whole presentation. But by running against government altogether, the right can outbid this clever maneuver by blaming even the facts of life on Washington and by diverting popular wrath away from the big donors and permanent-government types who pay for the whole show and who, at least on this calculus, need never lose.

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CLINTON, Bill, 1946-; PRESIDENTS -- United States; REFORMERS; POLITICIANS; STATESMEN; UNITED States
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