David Frum Quotes
Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.
Frum, David. Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again. Doubleday, 2007.
“Republicans” then referred to strong opponents of not only monarchy, but opposed a strong Presidency and federal government. The Federalists who supported John Adams for reelection to a 2nd term, were trounced so badly that it was the end of the Federalist Party. Their attacks on Jefferson had been particularly vicious with the hyperpartisanship as bad as in the early years of the 21st century. Jefferson tried to unify the nation with this quotation. It helped but there was still much bitterness.
While all the traditional Democratic interest groups supported Mondale, the average voters were not so enthusiastic. The Democrats lost 49 states to Ronald Reagan. The interest groups in the base of each party can help increase the turnout for a candidate or sit on their hands and suppress it. But if the individual voters are not generally enthused for a candidate, the interest groups cannot deliver a win in a presidential election.
David Jeffrey Frum is a Canadian-American political commentator and a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, who is currently a senior editor at The Atlantic as well as an MSNBC contributor. In 2003, Frum authored the first book about Bush's presidency written by a former member of the administration. He has taken credit for inspiring the phrase "axis of evil" in Bush's 2002 State of the Union address.
