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Article: A Nation of Victims.
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- National Review
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- January 18, 1993
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A Nation of Victims, by Charles J. Sykes (St. Martin's, 276 pp., $22.95)
"WHINE on, harvest moon," as George Bush used to say in happier days, deriding Michael Dukakis during the 1988 campaign. Bush's put-down was whimsical--whether it expressed the lingering preppie mirth in his soul, or a strange sort of goofiness, was hard to say--but it poked fun at the liberal lamentations that had been issuing from the Democrats since the 1960s.
During his Presidency and his reckless re-election campaign, however, it was often Bush who seemed to be whining, almost absent-mindedly. It was as though he knew the conservative words, but couldn't get the liberal tune ...