Mickey Kaus Quotes
Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.
Kaus, Mickey. Interview by Brian Lamb. "Q&A", C-SPAN, 23 May 2010.
In the Early 21st Century, the vast majority of the entertainment industry were supporters of the Democratic party. This has generally been true throughout history where entertainers have been on the left politically except in left leaning dictatorships like China and the Soviet Union where those governments tend to see entertainers as reactionaries. In general entertainers talk, sing, and dramatize about and criticize the status quo.
Kennedy was dining with Time Magazine publisher Henry Luce soliciting support for JFK's presidential candidacy. Luce observed that JFK to obtain the Democratic nomination would have left-of-center domestic policies. Luce was right and the father, wrong.
What if you are a conservative in a liberal environment? Then what you are conserving is liberalism.
His reference was to his experience as an undergraduate at Dartmouth, which he and associates views as a liberal organization, while others viewed it as a conservative bastion of the establishment.
This was a new political phenomenon where a President was perceived as more important, more powerful, and preferable to his party. Note that the base of the scale is labeled “Public Opinion”.
Robert Michael "Mickey" Kaus is an American journalist, pundit, and author, known for writing Kausfiles, a "mostly political" blog which was featured on Slate until 2010. Kaus is the author of The End of Equality and had previously worked as a journalist for Newsweek, The New Republic, and Washington Monthly, among other publications.
