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by Doug MataconisCongressman Jeff Flake, Republican from Arizona, in The New Yorker:
” The Republican Party has always had three tenets—economic freedom, limited government, and individual responsibility,†he told me not long ago. “If you look at any of those three issues lately, you’d be hard-pressed to say that the Republican Party really stands for any of them. Look at the growth of government. And I’m not just talking about war spending and homeland security. You can put that aside, and we’ve still grown substantially. Look at that tracking-poll question that’s always asked: ‘Whom do you trust more to manage the public’s finances, Republicans or Democrats?’ Republicans have always had a big edge there. And that has narrowed over the years, and now it’s reversed.â€
