Thomas Frank - The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demande...

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The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants in the days after the Three Mile Island disaster; if we had reacted to Watergate by making Richard Nixon a national hero.

Thomas Frank

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Die Wiederbelebung der Rechten ist so außergewöhnlich, als wenn die Öffentlichkeit in den Tagen nach der Drei-Meilen-Insel-Katastrophe Dutzende neuer Atomkraftwerke verlangt hätte; Wenn wir auf Watergate reagiert hätten, indem wir Richard Nixon zum Nationalhelden gemacht hätten.

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