New Rules - or Maybe No Rules - Govern Today's Politics
By David Shribman
August 07, 2016
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine — A full century ago, the 28th president — a professor as much as a politician — counseled the man who would become the 32nd chief executive that there was a predictable tide in the nation’s politics. Woodrow Wilson shaped the perspective of the young Franklin Delano Roosevelt indelibly when he told him the country was willing to be liberal for only about a third of the time and then it always returns to its conservative moorings.
This may be the election that moves the United States off all its moorings.
For this may be the election in which the liberal/conservative axis is a minimal factor, and, what is more, several other reliable tenants of presidential politics — a broad but fragile free-trade consensus, established notions of what constitutes proper campaign comportment, even the alignments between business and other special interests and the two major parties — have lost their potency, or even their relevance.
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