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Article: What ever happened to neoliberalism?
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- National Review
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- June 2, 1989
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Given birth by McGovern's ignominious defeat in 1972, gaining strength from Mondale's ignominious defeat in 1984, the 'new ideas' movement in the Democratic Party had its moment in the sun in 1988. After the Dukakis eclipse, they are asking,
GEORGE BUSH'S decisive trouncing of Michael Dukakis meant more than the defeat of a mousy, arrogant technocrat from Massachusetts. It signaled the collapse of the philosophy that Dukakis represented, the socalled neoliberal approach, which only a few years earlier had been heralded as "the most exciting intellectual movement in America," as Newsweek put it. Randall Rothenberg, in his book The Neoliberals, confidently ...