c******r 发帖数: 889 | 1 The Real Plumbers of Ohio
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Forty years ago, Richard Nixon made a remarkable marketing discovery. By
exploiting America’s divisions — divisions over Vietnam, divisions over
cultural change and, above all, racial divisions — he was able to reinvent
the Republican brand. The party of plutocrats was repackaged as the party of
the “silent majority,” the regular guys — white guys, it went without
saying — who didn’t like the social changes taking place.
It was a winning formula. And the |
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