Nixon's the One

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Tue May 14 17:04:08 PDT 2002


----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 1:48 PM Subject: Re: Nixon's the One

> >
> >Now you're just deliberately misreading me. My argument is fairly
simple:
> >all other things being equal, give me a Clintonian Democrat over a
Nixonian
> >Republican any day of the week. How that implies a "preference for the
> >counterfactual over the real" is beyond me, and perhaps thankfully so.
> >


> Well, my preference, based on what the two guys actually did, is the
> reverse. Of course I'd rather go out drinking with Bill than Dick.
>
> jks

Note the qualifying clause, "All other things being equal." Your preference is really for a set of political conditions that held circa 1970.

-- Luke



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